[Fedora-directory-users] Re: How to add a computer (feeling foolish)

[Mont Rothstein]

Thank you for the heads up and the doc pointer.

-Mont


On 3/23/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> 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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