Ah, no, I didn't mean to misspell it...That was the problem though :) I'll have a look at that shortly....
Also, versions were in original posting - Centos 4.2, Samba 3 (3.0.10-1.4E.2, to be exact). Thanks! ZB On Monday 02 January 2006 11:41 pm, Karl Banasky wrote: > It is installed with SAMBA 3.0 I am running CentOS and fedora, on both. > should be a man page on it. Also did you mean to mis-spell it? It is > pdbedit. Could do a locate on it to see where it is, might not be > path-ed correctly. > Here is a link to a man page on it: > http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/pdbedit.8.html > > It is good practice to say what version of Samba you are running along > with the OS. > > Karl- > > Z B wrote: > > Is pbedit a part of Samba or Windows? I'm not finding the command on the > > CentOS server or on an XP client... > > > > ZB > > > > Karl Banasky wrote: > >> I thought this had to do with the machine and user ID number (SID) > >> related to the Domain server. If you do a "pdbedit -Lv -u username" you > >> will see the SID numbers for that user. I would check and see that the > >> first set of numbers related to the domain or workgroup (I think) > >> match. I ran in to a similar problem before and I thought that is what I > >> read was my problem. > >> Hard subject to research if I remember correctly. > >> Karl- > >> > >>> Martin Miethe wrote: > >>>>> However, the problem arises when I try to get the existing clients > >>>>> setup for the new domain. I'm able to join the domain without a > >>>>> problem. However, when I reboot and try to login via a samba > >>>>> username / password (we're using a first initial-last name > >>>>> convention), Windows creates a new profile in C: > >>>>> \Documents and Settings\username.NEWDOMAIN, while all of the > >>>>> original data is in C:\Documents and Settings\username, and is > >>>>> essentially gone as far as the users are concerned. > >>>> > >>>> Try this: > >>>> 1) create a new account with admin rights (maybe administrator 2) > >>>> 2) go to "local users and groups" -> right click on Administrators > >>>> -> Add to Group -> Add... -> Location -> select your local computer > >>>> name; > >>>> enter the account name from 1) in the white box (administrator2) > >>>> 3) restart! > >>>> 4) go to the icon "my computer" -> righ click -> properties -> > >>>> advanced -> user profiles -> settings > >>>> from here copy the content from the local profile (username) to the > >>>> DOMAIN.username profile; > >>>> before you click OK, change the "permitted to use" to everyone (type > >>>> Everyone in the whitebox) > >>>> 5) click ok and wait ... you can delete the new administrator2 account > >>>> > >>>> regards, -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba