Change the domain name to sambadomain. Having the - in the name prevents the windows machines from joining. I ran into the same problem here.
Kevin B. McCrory Network Engineer - COPS US Government Solutions 13600 EDS Drive Mail stop: A4S-B21 Herndon, VA 20171 * phone: +01-703-733-3255 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * AKO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: fatima riadi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:28 PM To: Mccrory, Kevin B; samba@lists.samba.org Subject: RE: [Samba] Problem joining a Samba 3 domain - DC can't be contac ted My domain name is SAMBA-DOMAIN, I can't join it from a win 2003 machine. Now, if I try to join it from a XP machine, I am asked to enter a username and password for a user allowed to join the domain, however, the info I enter is not accepted!!! Any idea please? Thank you Note: to manage joining my samba domain from a xp machine, I had to change a registry key. --- "Mccrory, Kevin B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is your domain name? If you have special > characters in the domain name > the workstations won't join properly. The domain > name should be all one > word. > > Kevin B. McCrory > Network Engineer - COPS > US Government Solutions > 13600 EDS Drive > Mail stop: A4S-B21 > Herndon, VA 20171 > * phone: +01-703-733-3255 > * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * AKO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of > fatima riadi > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:59 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Problem joining a Samba 3 domain - > DC can't be contacted > > > Dear all, > > I configured samba 3.0.11 as PDC with openLDAP. > > Wehen I try to join my samba domain from a windows > machine (XP or 2003) I get this error message "a > domain controller for the domain "my_samba_domain" > could not be contacted. > > Do have any idea of what is hapening? > > Just for reference: I do not have a dns server. > > Regards. > > > > > > > Découvrez nos promotions exclusives "destination de > la Tunisie, du Maroc, > des Baléares et la Rép. Dominicaine sur Yahoo! > Voyages : > http://fr.travel.yahoo.com/promotions/mar14.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following > URL and read the > instructions: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > Découvrez nos promotions exclusives "destination de la Tunisie, du Maroc, des Baléares et la Rép. Dominicaine sur Yahoo! Voyages : http://fr.travel.yahoo.com/promotions/mar14.html -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba