On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 01:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Date: Mon Jun 16 15:59:05 2003
> Author:       vlendec
> 
> Update of /data/cvs/samba/source/utils
> In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv5191
> 
> Modified Files:
>       Tag: SAMBA_3_0
>       net_rpc_join.c 
> Log Message:
> This glosses over John's problem at SambaXP 2003. When we want to join
> a NT4 domain as a BDC with an existing workstation account (existing
> bdc is fine), we fail. Print a friendly error message in this case.

Why do we fail?  What I'm wondering is why the code to set the Account
Control Bits fails (around line 306).

> The correct solution would probably be to delete the account and try
> again. But even this makes us better than NT: NT4 fails in this
> situation with an empty warning message box and an unusable BDC. It
> has unsuccessfully tried to suck down the domain database, and thus
> has no administrator account to log in after reboot....

Yes, I'm glad we do better than that :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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