On Tuesday 18 September 2001 04:22, you wrote:
> Tony Molloy wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've recently upgraded our Samba PDC from a Redhat6.2 box running Samba
> > 2.0.7 to a Redhat 7.1 box running the latest rpm Samba-2.2.1a-4 from
> > Roswell.
stuff cut
> I think that if you read thru the excellent documentation at samba.org,
> you will find that the way this works is to create a samba user named
> root - root password is essential (smbpasswd -a root:root).
>
> Then when you 'add the computer to the domain' and it asks you to supply
> a user with sufficient privileges to join the machine to the domain -
> this user must be root.
>
> Craig
>
Thanks Craig. that was it. Late at night when something goes wrong like
that and you are in a hurry the documentation just does not seem to make as
much sense ads it normally does.
Regards,
Tony.
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