Couldn't get things working on the box I was on. In my research I found likewise-open, installed and configured on my laptop and was able to join the domain. Just curious if there is a reason not to go that route? On 02/07/2011 09:09 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > Set Samba's preferred AD server at the PDC emulator for the domain. > You can change this after joining the domain, but it seems to work > best when you point at the PDC emulator when joining. I'd also > recommend creating the computer object in AD using AD Users and > Computers before trying to join the Samba server to the domain. If > you're running a 2008 domain I think there is a setting that needs to > be changed on the AD side to allow Linux (and other Samba servers such > as Mac OSX) to join the domain, but I don't recall what that setting > is. > > Double check your kerberos realm. Kerberos realm is everything > following the @ sign if you look at the User logon name field in AD > Users and Computers. You may want to try using an account other than > the default Administrator account. > > >