Topic: Errors joining samba domain - win2000

[arnoldob]

I consisently get errors trying to join the domain used by my SME 6.0 server when using win2000 to logon. First I got the "conflicting credentials" error, which I resolved by disconnecting the mapped network drive on the win2k box. After that I keep getting "Account supplied is a computer account" I found a reference for that at:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/howto/samba-howto.html

It says having the workgroup name the same as the domain is the problem. I changed the workgroup to something else on the win2k box and rebooted it, but I still get the same error and can't get it  to join the domain. Is there a howto for samba and SME 6.0 someplace? The one referenced above is for 5.5 and I'm not sure how it changed between versions. At any rate I tried to follow it, but I got the same errors anyway. Please help

[Anonymous]

Can anybody offer any advice on this issue?

[Pajmon]

Have you create the account for machine on Sme box?
Yoy have to create a machine account for the computer.But maybe you know that and have done it:)

You can do this by for example:
/usr/sbin/useradd -g 100 -G 3001 -d /dev/null -c MyPC -s /bin/false MyPC$

and for smbpasswd file the same

smbpasswd -a -m MyPC
 
Can you tell more about your smb.conf? Maybe there is a problem?