On Tuesday 20 July 2004 04:39 pm, you wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris wrote: > | Since we are dealing with ADS, I thought it would be > | safe to refer to things in ads nomanclature. Aparently > | not the case with the password server. The > | error output was likewise misleading: > | > | [2004/07/15 11:55:43, 1] > > nsswitch/winbindd_ads.c:ads_cached_connection(81) > > | ads_connect for domain NEWDOMAIN failed: No such file or directory > | > | I was looking all around both machines' filesystems, > | LDAP and ADS for a file or directory that was missing. Turns > | out that had nothing to do with it. > | > | The problem was this line in my smb.conf: > | password server = stan.newdomain.int > | > | It should have been > | password server = STAN > | > | i.e. in netbios nomanclature -- not ADS(DNS) nomanclature. > | > | I am amazed that no one caught that, but there it is! > | So much grief for such a stupid gaff. > | > | I thank those who took the time to read my post, and > | hope that this will help someone in the future. > > Chris, > > This should have worked. Either netbios names, fwdn's, or > ip addresses are supported values in the pasword server > field in the Samba 3.0.x series. > > Does stan.newdomain.int resolve to an IP address and > does that machine have netbios enabled ?
Gerald, Yes, stan.newdomain.int resolves very nicely to an IP address, and yes it has netbios enabled. That is what baffled me. Chris > > > - -- > cheers, jerry > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com > SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org > GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc > "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." ----------- Sting > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFA/YMFIR7qMdg1EfYRAqkDAKDS21lXeoKlJY+KhbzGV+7ljBljugCfdzbH > zKW+59akKw4t1GIuQxU/ins= > =u4Ke > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
