Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:32:54 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: samba PDC for WIN2K clients? Message-ID: <3DB35946.4070908@cream.org> References: <1035155219.539.2.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
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Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, > I've got 2 WIN2K Pro workstations on my home lan that I'd like to > enable network logon for. I've been banging my head against a wall for > the last four hours trying to get this sorted, but to no avail. > > I keep getting the same error when trying to enter the Domain name into > the "WORKGROUP" field in Win2K network properties: > > "The following error occured validating the name "my_domainname", This > condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem. For more information > about troubleshooting common DNS lookup problems see the following > Microsoft blah., blah.., blah.., > > The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted". Have you added machine accounts to the FreeBSD box for the client boxes? You need machine accounts that look like clientname$ (dollar sign at end) added both as local accounts and then again with smbpasswd passing whatever the appropriate switch is to create a machine account. I have a FreeBSD box here acting as a PDC so we should be able to find the problem. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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