+1 for verification that you don't have a ghost entry of the machine.
On May 5, 2016 9:41 PM, "Michael Torrie" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/05/2016 05:33 PM, Kyle Waters wrote:
> > I'm trying to join a computer to a samba domain and I get the error:
> >
> > The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "MIDDLEEARTH":
> >
> > The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
> >
> >
> > Other computers are connected to and using this domain. This computer is
> > replace an other workstation that has be decommissioned.
>
> It's been a long time since I worked with Samba domains but if I recall,
> isn't there something you have to do with the password of the machine
> account before you can join?  Especially if you are replacing an
> existing computer that had already been a part of the domain with that
> machine account.  Maybe the easiest thing is to delete the machine
> account and recreate it?  smbpasswd -m ?
>
>
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