From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:28:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10E937B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow058o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D049943E77 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from pcow058m.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:28:43 +0100 Received: from cream.org (unverified [62.31.108.42]) by pcow058m.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:28:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3DB35946.4070908@cream.org> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:32:54 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: samba PDC for WIN2K clients? References: <1035155219.539.2.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, > I've got 2 WIN2K Pro workstations on my home lan that I'd like to > enable network logon for. I've been banging my head against a wall for > the last four hours trying to get this sorted, but to no avail. > > I keep getting the same error when trying to enter the Domain name into > the "WORKGROUP" field in Win2K network properties: > > "The following error occured validating the name "my_domainname", This > condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem. For more information > about troubleshooting common DNS lookup problems see the following > Microsoft blah., blah.., blah.., > > The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted". Have you added machine accounts to the FreeBSD box for the client boxes? You need machine accounts that look like clientname$ (dollar sign at end) added both as local accounts and then again with smbpasswd passing whatever the appropriate switch is to create a machine account. I have a FreeBSD box here acting as a PDC so we should be able to find the problem. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message