[PLUG] How to join Samba client to Windows domain?

[Matt Alexander]

Adding the machine to the PDC prior to running smbpasswd still didn't work
so I upgraded to Samba 2.2.3a and I was able to join the domain from the
client with this command:

smbpasswd -r DC1 -j MYDOMAIN -U administrator



reply leadin

> Try adding the machine to the PDC prior to running smbpasswd. There's no
> mechanism for adding the machine to the domain from the client.
>
> At 10:24 AM 4/3/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >I've tried this from several different Linux boxes and they all behave the
> >same way.  Any ideas why I can't connect?  Or maybe a suggestion on where
> >to hunt for the answer?
>
> Russ Johnson
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