Don't know if this has been brought up, but in order for any of our *nix machines to join a Windows domain, the NT admins must create a SID for that particular machine prior to even attempting to join. Shawn On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:24:18 -0600 (CST) Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Austad, Jay wrote: > > Ok, I cannot make Samba authenticate against a win2k domain no matter > > what I do. When I try to join the domain using smbpasswd -j DOMAIN, I > > just get an error that says "failed session request, Unable to join > > domain DOMAIN". I assume I have to join the domain before it will > > authenticate against the DC's right? Because right now when trying to > > connect to a share, I get a failed user/pass error. > > Yeah, you probably do have to join the domain. Did you do smbpasswd -U > <username> to make sure it was trying to authenticate as the remote > user? > > If you do smbclient '\\server\share' -U <blah>, it may work, too. > > > Can I make it use LDAP to authenticate against our LDAP servers? > > Haven't tried that one yet..