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Title: Unable to join (register) SME v6 domain
Post by: Ouibouana on September 22, 2004, 11:56:37 AM

Hi there !

I re-installed a brand new SME server in v6 (previously in v5.6), after a RAID 1 crash (1 drive dead).
I made win2kSP4 PCs moved to workgroup "W". Internet's working on PCs, DNS too. Now I try to register PCs to SME domain, with admin+password : windowns says "domain not valid or doesn't exist"

Please ideas ?

Additional stuffs :
I tried with another SME v5.6 server : OK, PC in domain
Back to workgroup, I tried to rename SMEv6 domain, change IP, read logs : unable to join domain

' get somewhat fed up today

Thanks
Bouana

Title: Unable to join (register) SME v6 domain
Post by: meanpenguin on September 22, 2004, 06:34:38 PM

Hi,

Did you do an upgrade or an install?
If you did an upgrade, all your machines should still be in the domain.

Just for kicks,
  1.  Un-join the domain.
  2.  Change the name of the PC
  3.  Reboot PC
  4.  Join the domain

Ed

Title: smb.conf not changed when changing domain name
Post by: Ouibouana on September 23, 2004, 11:07:05 AM

Hi there again !

The day after...

I finally looked in /etc/smb.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf  : the workgroup name was wrong !!!
Even if I change many times the configuration with admin console, the workgroup name stays the same.

I had to change manually in /etc/smb.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf and ... it works fine. At last.
But I know it's not a good thing, since I have to use templates (I can't understand these bloody templates !)
Any HowTo for bloody dummies about that ???

Thank you for explanations about admin console behaviour !!!!!

Regards
Bouana