Thanks John that was it. To join the domain
Create the computer in the Win2K Computer and User Admin app. Then in VMS $ mc samba_root:[bin]smbpasswd -r My-PDC -j My-Domain "-U" Username -s It prompts you for a password on the account used... Bingo If anything I would have guessed VMS put everything in UPPER case unless quoted. Thanks again. -- Gary -----Original Message----- From: John E. Malmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:56 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pulling my hair out because of a simple problem Gary M. Morin wrote: > Hello VMS Samba users -- > > I'm sure this is a very simple thing but I am well past my 20 minutes > rule (Rule: if you can't figure it out by yourself in 20 minutes then go > ask for help) > > I'm trying to us smbpasswd to set up my VMS Alpha in the NT Domain > (WIN2K AD) and I run the command like shown in a few of the postings > here and I get... > > $ mc samba_root:[bin]smbpasswd -r My-PDC -j My-Domain Unless you have set your process conventions otherwise, DCL defaults to converting all arguments that are not in quotes to lower case. -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
