SAMBA -JOIN DOMAIN

[Nobody's Hero]

I am setting up a dev SAMBA box for our Prod testing. I cant remember the command to join the domain. I believe I use the sbmpasswd command but I cant remember the syntax and my man pages are corrupt right now. Any help on the command syntax is helpful.

10x
RPM

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

If your /etc/samba/smb.conf file is configure correctly (workgroup is set to a domain name and in password server there's an IP of a server ) then
net join -U username
when username is the username of a person with permissions to join computers

[Nobody's Hero]

Thanks,
Can you look at the smbpasswd command? The '-j' option. Shouldn't I be using this command?

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

OK, they've changed it in version 3-what I gave you .
If you use previous version-try:
smbpasswd -j Domainname -r x.x.x.x -U username


where x.x.x.x is the address of DC
username is the username of a person with permissions to join

in order to make this command -you have to edit your smb.conf file and to set security to domain i.e security = domain
and encrypted passwords to yes (this is the default.

[Steven E. Protter]

I always have an account set up for the server on the Primary Domain Controller.

All I've ever done is change the smb.conf file as noted above and restarted samba.

The machine suddenly shows up on the network and is browseable if you have run the smbpasswd -a command earlier.

SEP