On 5/22/05, Chuck Theobald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have some machines (winXP and win2k) that cannot join my domain. Others > I have joined to the domain. I am using the smbldap-tools 0.8.9 with an > add machine script as follows: > > add machine script = /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w "%u" > > The LDAP entity gets created with objectClasses top, inetOrgPerson, and > posixAccount. My impression is that samba then comes along and changes the > entity, turning it into an account, sambaSamAccount object. This process > has succeeded in some four machines I have tried, but other machines fail > this final conversion. I get an error "The user name could not be found" > at the machine. All of these machines were joined to the same domain > previously run by Totalnet Advanced Server, so the machines themselves are > configured to be capable of joining. The only pattern I can discern is > that the machines on which this occurs have names of 8 characters or more, > though a machine that did join the domain has a name of 8 characters, so I > am not sure that this is relevant. > > Any ideas as to where I can look to begin to track this down? I can > manually create the machine accounts, but am leary of doing so due to the > requirement of having unique SIDs. > > Thanks, > > Chuck Theobald > System Administrator > The Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging > University of Oregon > P: 541-346-0343 > F: 541-346-0345
Chuck, I had this same problem, I would look at how your nss_ldap/nsswitch is working. Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
