On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Yannick Tousignant wrote: > > It's me again, with the solution to my problems. > > To get a working BDC, you have to kill samba, delete your > secrets.tdb, create a MACHINE.SID and then restart samba. You > will have to do this on the PDC and the BDC to have the same > SID the the secrets.tdb file. Then machine account are valid > even if you move your PDC, or you add a 2nd BDC, as long as you > create the MACHINE.SID file before the first startup of samba. > Don't forget, the MACHINE.SID file have to be the same on all > domain controlers or machine account will be invalid. > > And ho, backup your MACHINE.SID file, samba deletes it when > it convert the file to secrets.tdb!
So this did not work by simply copying secrets.tdb from the PDC to the BDC? cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba