Several weeks ago I installed Samba on a Centos 5.3 machine hoping to setup a Primary Domain Controller / File Server. I had a lot of trouble getting the thing working but last week I finally got everything to work. My windows vista business machines could connect to the samba server sucessfully, it had roaming profiles setup and working, home folders, and shared folders. Perfect.

This week I was going to format the vista business machines to remove all the old software, spyware, badware, and all the other rubbish we didn't want. I re-installed vista, entered all the settings the same as before (same computer names etc), then tried connecting to the samba PDC only to find it wouldn't connect. At first it wouldn't even connect but after playing with the DNS and settings I got the machines speaking to the server. However I them came acorss another problem which so far I haven't been able to fix.

When joining the domain I entered the domain admin details along with the PDC address and the two machines started speaking to each other. The problem started when an error came up saying something about the machine not being added. I then went back into Centos and manualy added the machine trust. Back to vista, I tried again, this time it connected but then returned another error saying the machine account already exists. If I manually remove the machine trust I go back to the first error. I have also tried manually removing the machine add script line from the conf, no luck there either.

Any ideas?

I have double checked all the username and passwords. Checking the log file I had this:

tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

But I think I fixed it by removing the "valid users" from the conf file.

Oh, just a thought....


Do I need to add the machines into /etc/hosts ?