I am going to use my fedora computer as a pdc.

I am just about there but I cannot log in with my Windows XP. I put in the domain name and a username and password prompt comes up and I put in admin and mypassword and it gives me the error

Logon failure: unknow user name or bod pasword

I have root as the username "admin" for smb

Here is my smb.conf file:

# Global parameters
[global]
netbios name = mako
workgroup = LAFAYETTE
; encrypt passwords = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
; security = user
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u\%m
logon script = logon.bat
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%u\.win_profile\%m
time server = yes
domain admin group = root jeffm
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
[netlogon]
path = /etc/samba/netlogon
; writeable = no
browseable = no

[profiles]
path = /home/samba-ntprof
browseable = no
writeable = yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700

[homes]
writeable = yes
browseable = no
; guest ok = no
map archive = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[HP]
comment = HP
path = /var/spool/samba
writeable = yes
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
printer name = HP
oplocks = No
share modes = No

well i'm not saying i know what the problem is but we can start narrowing down what is might be


just add and user and give it an samba password and try and log on as it

[root@fedora /]# useradd guestuser
[root@fedora /]# smbpasswd -a guestuser
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
[root@fedora /]#

if that doesn't work, have you added your machine trust with a '$' at the end of the name,

i know these are the basics but it's always good to start there.

the guestuser did not work.

The machine trust work. The documentation that I was reading said that was for NT4 machines. Mine is a XP so I skipped that step.

It said welcome to the domain. I rebooted and now it is saying that it cannot find the domain server when you do a ctrl+alt+del and try to login.

change add user script to add machine script and restart the service.
and uncomment the security=user line.
it will surely work.

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and u cant give admin right like
domain admin group = admin
coz this was working with samba 2
in samba 3 u can give admin right to prticular group in following way.

net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=admin

ok.

I changed that but it still does not want to login.
# Global parameters
[global]
netbios name = mako
workgroup = LAFAYETTE
; encrypt passwords = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
security = user
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u\%m
logon script = logon.bat
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%u\.win_profile\%m
time server = yes
domain admin group = root jeffm
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

Also, do I need to uncomment encrypt passwords?

Leave the passwords encrypted.. (only Windows 95, 98? use unencrypted pw)

chekc out this
link

older but the concepts are still the same..

hth