I have a small Samba installation, two servers and about 10 workstations. The hard drive on one of the Windows XP workstations failed. I cloned a drive a from an identical machine and replaced the defective drive. When it came up it had the name of the original machine (which was off). It worked fine.

This group is small and fairly stable so I add machines to the domain manually. The server uses tdbsam backend. On the repaired machine I changed the name of the machine to NEW and set the Workgroup to WORKGROUP and rebooted. I deleted the original machine account using smbpasswd -x restarted samba and recreated it using smbpasswd -a -m. I tried to rejoin the Domain using the original name. I was prompted for a username and password, I entered root and the root smbpasswd..I got an error message "The user name could not be found" I created an entirely new machine account and attempted to join the domain with the same result. Using log level 3 I don't see any obvious errors in the logs nor do I see any evidence of any exchange. I tried joining with the XP NETDOM.exe command (User not found) and the Samba NET DOM command unsuccessfully (Access Denied).

It appears that the trust account is not being created. I'm obviously missing something here.
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Robert Steinmetz, AIA
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Steinmetz & Associates
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