That's just it - as I mentioned, I *have* joined the domain OK. At what point am I supposed to receive a machine password?
A full transcript to illustrate the problem better: ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# net ads join -U administrator administrator's password: Using short domain name -- MYCOMPANY Joined 'BUGZILLA' to realm 'MYCOMPANY.LOCAL' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# net ads testjoin Join is OK [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# smbclient -P -L //sbs ERROR: Unable to fetch machine password ---- My smb.conf has the following setup: ---- security = ADS realm = MYCOMPANY.LOCAL workgroup = mycompany password server = sbs.mycompany.local wins support = no wins server = sbs invalid users = root # Winbind settings idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 # For testing debuglevel = 2 ---- I'm sure there's something small & stupid I've overlooked, but what??? Jeremy > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 03:30 > To: Jeremy Evans > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Samba] Machine-level shares on Windows server > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Evans wrote: > > > I realise that. I *did* give a 2nd example in my original post: > > > > $sudo smbclient -P -L //sbs > > ERROR: Unable to fetch machine password > > > > > > "net ads testjoin" returns an OK result at my end & the PDC shows the > > machine as joined to the domain at the other. > > > > What I don't seem to be able to find out is just how the Windows PDC > & > > Samba interact to ensure that the Samba machine is a [trusted?] > member > > of the domain & therefore how to use that fact to allow machine-level > > shares without having to perform a user-level login. > > In that case, did you join the domain? Unless, this is just a bug, > that seems the obvious explanation. > > > > > cheers, jerry > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIoFsQIR7qMdg1EfYRAlTCAKCqYd29MWtR2u+HQ5d2iJ4brcoxQwCg5Cwj > riGXI8QLCxKz1D86icciU3M= > =jpEz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Scanned by Bizo Email Filter -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
