Samba on Mac OS X 10.2 Client as a PDC for Win2K

[Anonymous]

The subject pretty much explains what I am trying to do.

I am trying to set up my Beige G3 as a PDC for a few Windows machines in my house. I’ve edited the smb.conf and ran through the steps for adding a machine and editing the information in NetInfo. Did the smbpasswd command stuff.

But here’s where I’m running into trouble. When I try to join the domain on the Windows machine when it asks for a login, if I type root and the root password it says “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”…then if I try with my normal admin user account boberito, it gives me a different error “the account used is a computer account. Use your global user account or local user account to access this server”

Any ideas on how to fix that or enable root so that it sees it and knows it? Or is this whole thing not possible to do on 10.2 client.

I didn’t do any of the ldap stuff because of obviously not being on 10.2 Server.
If someone could email me and give me some assistance I’d greatly apprciate it.

Thanks,
Bob
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[Anonymous]

Is it possible to do it without LDAP completely? To tie it into I suppose NetInfo’s passwords?

[Anonymous]

I’m having the same problem.

I already solved this on the past but i don’t remember what i did.

The message in the /Library/Logs/WindowsServices/WindowsServices.log:
[i:739ac0d25c]/SourceCache/samba/samba-26/source/smbd/password.c:DirServicesAuthUser
“dsAuthMethodStandard:dsAuthSMBNTKey” :([/i:739ac0d25c]

I don’t know the solution… but look this link:

[url]https://www.afp548.com./Articles/system/sambapdc.html[/url]

focus in this point:

[quote:739ac0d25c]This might be more generally applicable to a NetInfo-based setup, but only came up when I was working on the PDC issue. If you have a NetInfo hierarchy set up, you may well have more than one ‘root’ account on the server (for example top and machine level). When Samba is performing certain actions which have to be done as root, you might get authentication failures because your root passwords in NetInfo don’t match each other. In our case, we had all sorts of problems until we discovered that the root password in the top level of the NetInfo hierarchy hadn’t been reset during a password change. Normally this didn’t matter, because NetInfo would look at the local machine accounts too, but for some reason Samba didn’t.
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Still trying here, if anybody gets the solution, share it.

See ya,
syncBoo

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