Never mind... I found the problem. Actually, I caused the problem. I was removing some obsolete user IDs when I removed the "guest" account. Not knowing how closely tied it was to Samba. Once the ID was re-established, users (machines) were once again able to logon.
So, as an FYI... the guest account is very important for machines to be able to authenticate to a Samba PDC server. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:07 PM Subject: [Samba] Users/Machines Unable to Logon to Samba PDC > I have Samba 2.2.7 running on RedHat Linux 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18)... the system has been running just fine since the initial install four plus months ago. All of a sudden, starting this mid-morning, users are unable to logon to their Windows 2000 machines. They receive the following message: > > "The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system's computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account is incorrect." > > These same users were able to logon just fine yesterday... and some were able to logon just fine this morning... but now nobody can logon. > > Thinking that the computer account had gone bad for some reason, I changed the workstation from being a member of a domain to a member of a workgroup, then I deleted the account from Samba (using "smbpasswd -x computer$"), then from Linux (using "userdel computer$"). I then had the computer join the domain, and was welcomed to the domain. After reboot, the same error message. > > If I logon locally to the computer, I am able to map drives (using "net use x: \\server\share /user:username password). I am also able to perform a "net use" on the server. > > What can I do and/or test to further determine what the problem is? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
