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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2001-12-06 07:37:58 +0000
committerGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2001-12-06 07:37:58 +0000
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@@ -31,14 +31,7 @@
<title>Joining an NT Domain with Samba 2.2</title>
- <para>In order for a Samba-2 server to join an NT domain,
- you must first add the NetBIOS name of the Samba server to the
- NT domain on the PDC using Server Manager for Domains. This creates
- the machine account in the domain (PDC) SAM. Note that you should
- add the Samba server as a "Windows NT Workstation or Server",
- <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> as a Primary or backup domain controller.</para>
-
- <para>Assume you have a Samba-2 server with a NetBIOS name of
+ <para>Assume you have a Samba 2.x server with a NetBIOS name of
<constant>SERV1</constant> and are joining an NT domain called
<constant>DOM</constant>, which has a PDC with a NetBIOS name
of <constant>DOMPDC</constant> and two backup domain controllers
@@ -49,11 +42,14 @@
and run the command:</para>
<para><prompt>root# </prompt><userinput>smbpasswd -j DOM -r DOMPDC
- </userinput></para>
+ -U<replaceable>Administrator%password</replaceable></userinput></para>
<para>as we are joining the domain DOM and the PDC for that domain
(the only machine that has write access to the domain SAM database)
- is DOMPDC. If this is successful you will see the message:</para>
+ is DOMPDC. The <replaceable>Administrator%password</replaceable> is
+ the login name and password for an account which has the necessary
+ privilege to add machines to the domain. If this is successful
+ you will see the message:</para>
<para><computeroutput>smbpasswd: Joined domain DOM.</computeroutput>
</para>