Re: samba PDC for WIN2K clients?

[Andrew Boothman]

Stacey Roberts wrote:

Hello, 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.
I keep getting the same error when trying to enter the Domain name into
the "WORKGROUP" field in Win2K network properties:
"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..,
The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted".

Have you added machine accounts to the FreeBSD box for the client boxes?

You need machine accounts that look like clientname$ (dollar sign at end) added both as local accounts and then again with smbpasswd passing whatever the appropriate switch is to create a machine account.

I have a FreeBSD box here acting as a PDC so we should be able to find the problem.

Andrew.


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