I'm having trouble connecting a Samba BDC to a Samba 3 PDC. I attempted to join using the following commands: net rpc join net rpc join -S <PDC name> -Uroot net rpc join bdc -S <PDC name> -Uroot Each time I get an error report of some kind, usually: "Create of workstation account failed Unable to join domain <domain name>." Or, more frequently: "[2007/02/19 18:02:04, 0] utils/net_rpc_join.c:net_rpc_join_newstyle(319) Error domain join verification (reused connection): NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED" I check, and sure enough,there is a disabled machine account. Running pdbedit -Lw <BDC name>\$ I find: "<BDC name>$:504:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[DS ]:LCT-00000000:" I check the join with "net rpc testjoin" and confirm that that join did not work: "[2007/02/19 20:44:05, 0] utils/net_rpc_join.c:net_rpc_join_ok(66) Join to domain '<domain name>' is not valid" In addition to running net commands from the BDC, I have also attempted to edit the account database on the PDC with pdbedit. I have tried to create account entries with several different flag types. Here's an example: "pdbedit -a -m -u <BDC name> -c "[W]"" or "pdbedit -a -m -u <BDC name> -c "[S]"" These commands fail: "[root at massive samba]# pdbedit -a -m -u <BDC name> -c "S" tdb_update_sam: SAM_ACCOUNT (BDC name) with no RID! Unable to add machine! (does it already exist?)" No, it does not exist, as I confirmed with: "pdbedit -Lw <BDC name>\$", which reports that no such machine account exists. I also checked with "pdbedit -L" and checked for the BDC name in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. The smb.conf files on both the BDC and PDC probably are correct. I was able to reproduce these errors using BDC and PDC config files copied directly from "Samba 3 By Example" Has anybody else encountered this problem? John Reese