Panther PDC trouble

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All,
In an emergency, we needed to make one of our XServes a PDC (our old
NT4 PDC finally bit the dust). Since it’s already an OD Master, I was
able to easily make it a PDC for our domain, added computer accounts
for the couple of PCs we have, but I can’t get our NT4 Citrix server to
join the domain.
Keeps saying, “could not contact domain controller”.

I’ve tried:
-rebooting the NT4 server (several times)
-enabling WINS on the Mac OS X Server
-stopping and starting services (SMB) on the Mac OS X Server

The PCs can “see” the Mac OS X Server in their workgroup, but this is
b/c we’re running SMB file services from the machine.

My Windows Name Service log in server admin looks ok:
“[2004/07/19 11:50:13, 2]
/SourceCache/samba/samba-56/samba/source/nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:
announce_local_master_browser_to_domain_master_browser(109)
announce_local_master_browser_to_domain_master_browser:
We are both a domain and a local master browser for workgroup GRAFIK.
Do not announce to ourselves.
[2004/07/19 11:50:13, 2]
/SourceCache/samba/samba-56/samba/source/nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:
sync_with_dmb(151)
sync_with_dmb:
Initiating sync with domain master browser GRAFIKFILESERVER<20> at IP
192.168.1.23 for workgroup GRAFIK”

Any ideas?
(Mac OS X Server 10.3.3, XServe DP 1.33GHz G4)

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MacTroll wrote:

Ahhh Grafik, I remember them.

So the client PCs were able to join with no problems?

What’s the mode of the Citrix box, is it still trying to be a PDC/BDC? Also was the name of your new OSXS NT Domain the same as the old one? Also I’d check to make sure that the Citrix box is using the OSXS for WINS.

Joel

Hey Joel,

Yeah, they’re a good place. We actually haven’t tried to join client PCs just yet, for fear of trashing their existing roaming profiles. Already managed to hose an XP Pro machine this way. I was going to try my XP Pro on VPC as an experiment, but haven’t had a chance yet.

I don’t know if the citrix box was attempting to be a BDC, but it did used to have a list of users and passwords in NT User Mgr for Domains. I’ve heard on the XServer list that a windows machine can’t be a BDC to a samba PDC, in effect destroying our initial concept.

The OS X domain name is the same, although I tried testing a different one for a couple hours. The last step was making sure the WINS address was the IP of the OS X PDC, which it wasn’t. Changed that with no success.

Any other ideas still appreciated. I’ll report back with my experiences… 😛

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