when I entered (net ads join -U administrator )command to join a linux machine to w2k3 Domain it returns an error result (ads_connect: No such file or directory)
this w2k3 server is the primary D.C with the dns,dhcp,wins,etc installed. Already i have manually entered this linux machine's account in the w2k3's Active Directory Users and Computers. how do i succeed to do this?

Assuming all the other requirements are met, I believe it must be a Capitol 'A' in administrator.
Does your kinit Administrator@DOMAIN.COM and then entering the password work?

hello Musicman, thanks but the actually the "kinit Administrator@DOMAIN.COM" entry does not work in the first place. when i enter it and press enter, followed by password and press enter it returns an error saying:
kinit(v5): Clock skew too great while getting initial credentials
How do i get this fixed?

try setting your clock with ntp. if there's too much of a difference in the clock on your machine and the server, the kinit will continue to fail.

hello Paulgnc,
i suspected the clock sync as well. infact while on several attempt i got a another error somehow similar to the first,it says:
kinit(v5): Preauthentication failed while getting initial credentials
so how exactly do i get the clock synchronised

install an ntpclient, I believe mine is actually called "ntpclient" and there are command parameters to sync to a specified server's ip address. I have a cron job to that at midnight daily.

yeah musicman_ace, the problem here is that when try to install the NTPclient (ie yum install ntpclient) the system returns a massage like this:

Setting up install process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update

I did
rpm -qa | grep ntp
and ntp-4.2.0 is simply in my system. my system by the way is Enterprise Linus v4 (CentOS)
i'm still stucked please!

I'm no redhat guru. Try compiling it from source.

Alternatively, verify your time zone it correct and manually set the time within 2min of the Windows Domain Controller

hey! musicman - mentioning your name here doesnt mean you're that special! whether you exist or not there will be posts in this board and there will continue to be responces to them - i mean you sounded quite irrational. thats not the right approach.

if your talking out my "I'm no redhat guru", I simply mean that I don't use YUM and RPM enough to troubleshoot or explain how to query the YUM database to find an NTPclient. Now I do compile from source for my own programs and several commercial ones, so I was offering an alternative since the command yum install ntpclient didn't work.

I understand I never had to attempt to answer and I know I'm nothing specail. I'm sorry I tried to help man.

net ads join -U command if reflect the following error:

Please help me

[2006/09/18 08:59:41, 0] utils/net_ads.c:ads_startup(186)
ads_connect: No results returned

yeah, i believe i've been able to join this Linux to the w2k3 domain (with net ads join -U administrator). becouse now i can see the Linux box in the windows machine, but the problem now is that when i double click it i cannot gain access to the Linux box. an error messages pops up saying:

\\LinuxBox is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource.Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you have access permissions.
The network path was not found.

Ok;with WINBIND,KERBEROS,SAMBA,and PAM.D configured on the Linux box, as well as DNS running in the w2k3 D.C. I believe I need not re-create netework users account on the Linux/Samba machine before users can authenticate and access it.
So what remains to do for me to access this Linux box over the network?

Has anyone come up with a solution for this?