WINS was all setup, and the error never complained about WINS. I took the laptop back to my office and tried to connect it to our domain, a 2000 AD-Domain, and the same error came up. At this point, I'm just reloading the laptop, since I have no other ideas. =)
aton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Mautner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Aton'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 11:17 PM Subject: RE: [Samba] DNS error connecting to Domain > > Subject: [Samba] DNS error connecting to Domain > > > Hello, > > > > I have a Windows 2000 Pro SP3 Laptop, and a RH 7.3 server > > running Samba 2.2.5. > > > > One day it refused to connect to the domain, said it wasn't > > available, couldn't access \\server01\user\profile directory, > > and refused to browse the samba server. Reboots didn't work. > > I unjoined the domain, and it complained that it could not > > remove the machine account from the server. After I rebooted > > it, I tried to join the domain again, and got a message > > (sorry, but this was a few hours ago) something like this: > > > > DNS lookup error. Unable to lookup the Domain controller in > > the Active Directory. Cannot contact domain. > > > Sometimes when joining a XP box, I get a similar error message. > Continued text says, it needs a WINS server as alternative (at > Least what I remember). Then I say AH and add my samba servers > IP to the tcpip settings (advanced ...) as WINS server and > Everything's fine. Yes, "wins support = yes" should be set. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
