Joing windows to my Linux domain failed

[Sakui]

I am using redhat 9 and Suse Linux 9 enterprise
I try to join my windows 2003 PC to the domain it says unknown user root. I have also hack the registry of my windows 2003 in the localmachine/system/currentcontrolset/service/netlogon/.yet still it can't join the domain. I have also created a smbpassord for the root.When i go to /etc/samba/smbpasswd ,i see a long mix of alphanumeric characters.i Have also try creating the smbpassword through the Swat interface but yet still i can not join the domain.When i am joining the domain i see the login box for the user and password but it continue to tell me unknown user " root"
I need your help.Both the Suse linux and Redhat does not allow me to join my windows 2003 PC to their varoius domain. But the Suse linux and Redhat are seperate domains configure with samba.

[Ivan Ferreira]

See the Samba 3 Howto, maybe you need to do a groupmap for the users. You will need a user in the "Domain Admins" RID.

There are a lot of things that need to be verified. The procedure for create a PDC is complex, and is not a easy task to say what is wrong if the entire procedure used is not know.

After that, you should also verify that the add machine script works properly.