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setting up Samba server as a PDC

I'm still not able to connect to the Samba server as a PDC from the client machine. I've added root as a Samba account in smbpasswd, and I've added the IP address of the Samba server machine to the WINS server list on the client. But I still get a "network path not found" when I try to configure the client to be a member of the domain.

> Does anyone have any idea if there is anything further that I need to do
> to set up the Samba server as a PDC?

You need to either, a) first create a machine account in UNIX and Samba for
that client you're adding,

OK, I hate to seem like I'm terribly dense here, but I guess I am. What is a "machine account"? I'm only familiar with accounts for users, not machines.

or b) make use of the 'add machine script' in
smb.conf.

Sorry, but what "add machine script" are you referring to? I'm not familiar with any add machine script.

I don't mean to be unnecessarily annoying, but I've never used domains before and I'm still very unclear on what exactly is required to set up a domain controller. Is there some good documentation on this somewhere that I could refer to? The Samba documentation seems to be sadly deficient on the topic of how to set up a Samba server as a PDC. If anyone has any further advice or guidance on how in the world one can get a Samba server to work as a PDC, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks very much,
Eric



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