It seems that this is a Samba issue and not a FDS issue. I hadn't locked on to the fact that Samba is the Domain controller and FDS is only the Directory server. -Mont On 3/21/06, Mont Rothstein <mont.rothstein at gmail.com> wrote: > > I can't figure out how to add a computer to the domain. > > I've searched but can't find anything on this, which I assume means it is > so easy that no one has even bothered to write about it. > > I created a user in the Domain Admins group. I made that user an NT User, > set the NT User ID to be the same as the FDS User ID, and checked Create New > NT Account. > > On a Windows XP box I went to System Properties->Computer Name->Computer > Name Changes and entered the domain name. > > I am prompted to enter the name and password of an account with permission > to join the domain. I have tried entering the user name both as > domainname\username and just username. No matter what I entered I get: > > "unknown user name or bad password" > > I also tried adding a similar user (different User ID) to the Directory > Administrators group. Using that user produced the same result. > > If someone could please explain what needs to be done, or point me to a > doc no this very basic process, I would appreciate it. > > Thanks, > -Mont > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20060323/5b311f91/attachment.html