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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:14:23 +0300
From:      "D. Penev" <dpenev@mail.bg>
To:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: samba PDC for WIN2K clients?
Message-ID:  <20021021191423.GA244@earth.dpsca.bg>
In-Reply-To: <1035176866.539.6.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:07:44AM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
>Subject: Re: samba PDC for WIN2K clients?
>From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
>To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
>Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com,
>	FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Date: 21 Oct 2002 06:07:44 +0100
>
>Hi Andrew,
>   Thanks for getting back to me.
>
>I tried getting the machine account added to smbpasswd file, but this
>fails:
># smbpasswd -m -n -a <winbox>
>LDAPS option set...!
>fetch_ldap_pw: no ldap secret retrieved!
>ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password for  from secrets.tdb
>LDAPS option set...!
>fetch_ldap_pw: no ldap secret retrieved!
>ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password for  from secrets.tdb
>Failed to add entry for user <winbox$>.
>Failed to modify password entry for user <winbox$>
>#=20
>
>Is the syntax for adding the account correct here? Thanks again, hope to
>hear from you again soon.
>
>Stacey
>
>
>On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 02:32, Andrew Boothman wrote:
>> Stacey Roberts wrote:
>> > Hello,=20
>> >      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.=20
>> >=20
>> > I keep getting the same error when trying to enter the Domain name into
>> > the "WORKGROUP" field in Win2K network properties:=20
>> >=20
>> > "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..,=20

Do you enable NBT on adapter?
It seems that win2k box attempt to use dns not wins for resolving names.
The standard way to add machine account is to use join to domain function
from windows box because if you manual add this account windows box doesn't
know what is the password for account.

>> >=20
>> > The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted".
>>=20
>> Have you added machine accounts to the FreeBSD box for the client boxes?
>>=20
>> You need machine accounts that look like clientname$ (dollar sign at=20
>> end) added both as local accounts and then again with smbpasswd passing=
=20
>> whatever the appropriate switch is to create a machine account.
>>=20
>> I have a FreeBSD box here acting as a PDC so we should be able to find=
=20
>> the problem.
>>=20
>> Andrew.
>>=20
>>=20
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>--=20
>Stacey Roberts
>B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science
>
>Web: www.vickiandstacey.com
>



--=20
Regards,
D. Penev

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