Re: How to add a computer (feeling foolish)

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NT User has nothing to do with samba.

Samba uses SambaSamAccount objectclass - you can look through the schema
and check which attributes apply to samba.

You could make things easier on yourself and go through Samba
documentation...

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs

check out the 'By Example' which pretty much covers everything you would
need to know.

Craig

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:58 -0800, Mont Rothstein wrote:
> 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
>         
>         
> 
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