No matter what I have tried, I have not been able to get a Win2000 machine to become a member of the domain of a Linux/Samba system I have set up.
The Win2000 machine DOES have a user entry in smbpasswd.
That user entry DOES have a dollar sign.
The Linux root account DOES have an smbpasswd that is different from its system password.
The machines are connected to the same router, and have all the appropriate IP addressing.
When I tell Win2000 to join the domain, I enter a username of “root” and the password that was set up with smbpasswd.
I’ve also tried the system password for root.
I have tried all of this both with and without a samba account for the user under which I am logged in on Win2000.
I have tried it with signsecurechannel (in the registry) set as 0, as well as 1.
Not matter what I have tried, I get the same error every time:
The following error occurred attempting to join the domain “DOMAIN NAME”:
Login failure: unknown user name or bad password.
Ultimately, what I want as the final result is for the users on this Win2000 system (and 50 others) to have their home directories be located on the Linux/Samba system and for them to connect to those automatically upon login. That way, regardless of the Win2000 system upon which the user logs in, he will automatically have his same files with him. In other words, his home directory will be through Samba, and not locked down to a specific Win2000 machine.
Thanks!
UPDATE: Had forgotten to check the log files, but now that I have, I’m not quite sure exactly what this means. Here is the log file (from /var/logs/samba) for the Win2000 machine I was trying to use:
[2007/10/30 08:28:42, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785)
create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2007/10/30 08:28:42, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751)
create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
[2007/10/30 08:28:42, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785)
create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2007/10/30 08:28:42, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751)
create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
Obviously, it’s trying to create something, but WHAT? After seeing the message, I created shares and directories named “Administrators” and “Users” in case the login process somehow needed them, but I’m still getting the same login error on the Win2000 machine, and the same log errors on the Linux machine. Yes, I did restart Samba after making the changes.
Thanks!