Anyone figure out how to get a W2K machine to join a samba3 domain thats using ldap? I'm on Debian/unstable which has: Samba 3.0.10-1 smbldap-tools 0.8.5-3-2 slapd 2.1.30-3 I've gone through the howto's on how to do Samba3+LDAP, and its working fine for a W98 machine (which of course doesn't need a machine account). smb.conf has these ldap related params: ### LDAP related additions ### ldap admin dn = "cn=smbadmin,ou=Services,dc=hissingdragon,dc=net" # ldap ssl = start tls passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://localhost ldap delete dn = no ldap suffix = dc=hissingdragon,dc=net ldap machine suffix = ou=Users ldap user suffix = ou=Users ldap group suffix = ou=Groups ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 map acl inherit = Yes ldap filter = (&(uid=%u)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount)) ldap passwd sync = yes add user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -a -m '%u' delete user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-userdel '%u' add group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p '%g' delete group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupdel '%g' add user to group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -m '%u' '%g' delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x '%u' '% g' set primary group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-usermod -g '%g' '%u' add machine script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w '%u' ... which creates this machine account in ldap automatically the first time I try to join the machine to the domain: dn: uid=nidoqueen$,ou=Computers,dc=hissingdragon,dc=net objectClass: top objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount cn: nidoqueen$ sn: nidoqueen$ uid: nidoqueen$ uidNumber: 1035 gidNumber: 513 homeDirectory: /dev/null loginShell: /bin/false description: Computer gecos: Computer -- account is created in "Computers" ou, even though my smb.conf says to use "Users". Read somewhere that there is a bug in Samba3 that requires that the machine account go in the same ou as users. (I did try manually changing it to Users, but no good.) ... here's some of the log output (near the end, it was rather lengthy): Feb 16 12:53:35 steelix slapd[5304]: conn=1824 op=5 SRCH base="dc=hissingdragon,dc=net" scope=2 filter="(&(&(uid=NIDOQUEEN $)(objectClass=sambaSamAccount))(objectClass=sa\ mbaSamAccount))" Feb 16 12:53:35 steelix slapd[5304]: conn=1824 op=5 SRCH attr=uid uidNumber gidNumber homeDirectory sambaPwdLastSet sambaPwdCanChange sambaPwdMustChange sambaLogonTime s\ ambaLogoffTime sambaKickoffTime cn displayName sambaHomeDrive sambaHomePath sambaLogonScript sambaProfilePath description sambaUserWorkstations sambaSID sambaPrimaryGrou\ pSID sambaLMPassword sambaNTPassword sambaDomainName objectClass sambaAcctFlags sambaMungedDial sambaBadPasswordCount sambaBadPasswordTime sambaPasswordHistory modifyTim\ estamp sambaLogonHours modifyTimestamp Feb 16 12:53:35 steelix slapd[5304]: conn=1824 op=5 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Feb 16 12:53:35 steelix smbd[4093]: [2005/02/16 12:53:35, 0] rpc_server/srv_netlog_nt.c:get_md4pw(244) Feb 16 12:53:35 steelix smbd[4093]: get_md4pw: Workstation NIDOQUEEN$: no account in domain ... it looks suppicious that its looking to objectClass=sambaSamAccount, when this nidoqueen$ is a posixAccount. I've tried this: add machine script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -a '%u' so that it is a sambaSamAccount thats created, but that doesn't work either. Any ideas? Someone willing to post the LDIF dump of a working machine account? Thanks. John Hawley | Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux? Network Admin (CCNA) | --Jurgen Botz Linux Sys Admin (LPIC-1) | jhawley at hissingdragon.net |