Samba PDC Problem - User/PWD unknown?

[Roland]

Hi all,

i'm trying to move from Samba-Workgroup Server to PDC
so i set the following globals:
[global]
workgroup = SAMBADOMAIN #formerly: SAMBAGRP
netbios name = HAMLET
security = DOMAIN # formerly: share
encrypt passwords = Yes
logon script = logon.cmd #new
logon home = \\%L\%U\.profiles #new
domain logons = Yes # was 'no' before
os level = 64
preferred master = Yes # was 'no' before
domain master = Yes # was 'no' before

Then i added on the Linux-Server the Computer-Name
of the Window$-2000-Box:
useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false rolandpc\$
smbpasswd -a -m rolandpc
and got the 'added user roland$'
So far, so good.
Then, i switched at the windows-network-propertys-box
from my old sambagrp to SAMBADOMAIN with
the name 'rolandpc', PW 'rolandpc' and get the
error 'unknown user/password'.

I tried it with other users/pc-names but
the problem still persists :-( what did i wrong?

Thanks in advance, Roland.

 

[robertomason]

I had the same problem. In my case, the solution was simple. I had two Linux machines running samba as peer to peer. I tried converting one to a domain server, but couldn't get my xp to log on. My problem was that both my linux machines were tring to be master browser and their OS levels were identical... 64.

I set master browser to no on my peer-to-peer,and that solved my problem.

Also if your tring to connect an xp to a domain, theirs some modifications to be done to the Local Security Polices. For that goto the following link, it may answer some questions

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba/samba-4-4.html