I just found what I was looking for. I needed domain admin group = someuser in my smb.conf. I was not able to register the computer accounts without it. Hmm, tutorials are always missing something. Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: <daritner at attbi.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Samba as a PDC for WinXP clients > I found that samba account verification takes 3 account > profiles to be the same with windows 2k and above. > 1. The windows login > 2. The Samba user account > 3. The Unix account > > All 3 must be the same. With Win2k and up, windows > requires an encrypted password transaction, so to > accomodate this samba utilizes the unix/linux account > for that part. > > Does anybody have experience setting up Samba as a PDC for Windows XP > > clients? I have followed > > http://www1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba/index.html but I am still > > stumped. I am getting authentication errors, and it seems in part to be > > because it can not read the /usr/local/private/smbpasswd file. It gets > > permission denied to open it. I change the attributes to world readable (I > > know -- uck!) and it sets the attributes back and then can not access it. > > Funny it should be so self defeating. > > > > Anyway, has anybody set up one of these beasts? > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >