tim@pipandtim.com wrote:
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:11, John Scott wrote:
Does anyone actually have XP/2000 boxes making trust connections with a samba pdc?
Yes - Windows 2000 (x2)
I encountered the same error message - a search of MSFT site revealed that this was due to the machine not being able to find a relevant DNS entry.
A DNS entry for what? Itself? The PDC? Or the PDC looking for an entry for the connecting machine? I don't use DNS for internal network resolution. I use the hosts/lmhosts files so I don't understand how DNS would apply. Any theories?
However... at the time the Samba PDC was behind a firewall - when i stopped the firewall completely (PDC was not attached to the internet) the machines were able to join the domain no problem.
The PDC is running SuSEFirewall2. The XP machines are running Zone Alarm. I have opened ports 137-139 for internal hosts. As far as I know, that's all I need. Are you suggesting I try shutting down the firewall on the PDC? Shutting Zone Alarm didn't help. That makes sense though since configured ZA to view my internal network as a trusted zone.
My guess (and that is what it is) is ,judging from the talk about Zone Alarm and opening some ports is that this is where your problem lies.
I'm told that for machine trusts to work you need port 139. Perhaps there is some configuring to be done in Windows for the authentication method? Anyone know? John