Hi Folks, I have a RH9 machine running Samba 3.0.0 (Had the same situation when running 2.2.8) and I am not being able to make my W2K SP4 clients or XP join the PDC.
I keep receiving the following message: "The following error occurred validating the name "ADIDOMAIN" The condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem. For information about troubleshooting common DNS lookup problems, please see Microsoft Web Site: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=5171 The Specified domain either does no exist or could not be contacted." My first tough was that nmb was broken, and the netbios name was not being setup correctly. But I did the following: Tried to find the domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# nmblookup adidomain added interface ip=10.179.8.90 bcast=10.179.8.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 querying adidomain on 10.179.8.255 Got a positive name query response from 10.179.8.90 ( 10.179.8.90 ) 10.179.8.90 adidomain<00> Tried to find the client: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# nmblookup imageadi added interface ip=10.179.8.90 bcast=10.179.8.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 querying imageadi on 10.179.8.255 Got a positive name query response from 10.179.8.149 ( 10.179.8.149 ) 10.179.8.149 imageadi<00> both are working! Then I tough it was probably something to do with my client. For some reason, my client was not being able to see my domain. Then I tried: net use h: \\adidomain\homes /user:myuser ping adidomain and both works! Checked my services: (/etc/services) netbios-ns 137/tcp # NETBIOS Name Service netbios-ns 137/udp netbios-dgm 138/tcp # NETBIOS Datagram Service netbios-dgm 138/udp netbios-ssn 139/tcp # NETBIOS session service netbios-ssn 139/udp microsoft-ds 445/tcp microsoft-ds 445/udp seens okay. Checked the proccess: root 5807 0.0 1.0 9620 2580 ? S 14:26 0:00 smbd -D root 5811 0.0 0.9 7840 2436 ? S 14:26 0:00 nmbd -D nobody 5890 0.0 1.2 10088 3244 ? S 14:54 0:00 [smbd] nobody 5891 0.0 1.2 10096 3252 ? S 14:54 0:00 [smbd] seens okay also. checked my config file: [global] add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g workstations -s /bin/false -M %u create mask = 0664 dead time = 0 debug level = 3 default case = lower directory mask = 0770 dns proxy = no domain logons = yes domain master = yes dos filetimes = yes encrypt passwords = yes hide dot files = yes interfaces = tr0 load printers = no local master = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m log level = 2 logon drive = H: logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile logon script = netlogin.bat max log size = 50 name resolve order = host wins bcast netbios name = adidomain os level = 64 passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u os level = 64 passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u password level = 8 preferred master = yes printcap name = /etc/printcap security = user server string = ADI Primary Domain Controller (Samba %v PDC) socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd time server = yes unix password sync = yes username level = 8 username map = /etc/samba/smbusers wins support = yes workgroup = ADI null passwords = no [netlogon] path = /home/domain/netlogon read only = yes browseable = no write list = @admin [profiles] path = /home/domain/profiles read only = no path = /home/domain/profiles read only = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 force directory mode = 0700 inherit permissions = yes nt acl support = yes map system = yes map hidden = yes browseable = no comment = User profile directory on %L (Samba %v PDC) profile acls = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writeable = yes Does not looks like I have a problem here. testparm is happy also. I did my homework by googling and looking for things in the maillist. Found lot of info on SP4 + Samba. Things I tried (All the combinations of the following were tried): - Disable LMSHOSTS - Add samba server to DNS configuration - Add samba server to wins configuration - Change the netlogon\parameters thing on the REGEDIT, even knowing its only for windows XP pro. And its still not working, still giving that DNS message. Is there anything else I could try? Do any of you guys have experience in this scenario? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much, Emannuel Silva -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
