Yesterday I posted that I got my "add machine script" working, only to run into a new problem:
> However, Windows is still not completely happy. Now on the first > attempt to join a domain, while Samba appears to succesfuly create the > account and populate the sambaSamAccount info, Windows comes back and > tells me "The RPC server is unavailable". Again, the second attempt to > join the domain succeeds. > While digging around, I ran across this page: http://www.wlug.org.nz/SambaAsPDC At the bottom of the page it recommends giving the XP box a static IP address if you run into this "RPC server unavailble" problem. This fixed the problem, but is not an acceptable solution for us. I vaguely remember something about issues with DNS/DHCP/Windows, so now I'm off to see what info I can dig up there. If anybody has some pointers it would be greatly appreciated. BTW: For anybody else doing this type of testing with repeatedly trying to join a domain, I highly recommend using VMware. I have both my Samba server and my XP client installed in "virtual" machines with snapshots taken at appropriate places. With this setup I can try various things, then "reset" to the snapshot to get a pristine machine again. Sure beats having to reinstall or figure out what I have to "undo" in the registry. Plus I can be sure that I didn't miss something in some file that I didn't know about. /dwight -- Dwight N. Tovey email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
