PDC setup Please help

Hi there I have followed the PDC for small business setup to the letter but no joy I cannot get my 2 other machines on the network to join the domain, not sure what I have done, let me tell you a little about my setup maybe that will shed some light. I have a netgear router, that all the machines are attached to wireless and hard wire, the default WORKGROUP created by the roter is NETGEAR so I named my domain NETGEAR thinking that all the machines could just join the same domain, when I try to join the domain on a windows machine I get the following:

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My smb.conf file looks like this
[global]
netbios name = SERVER1
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
wins support = yes
; wins server = w.x.y.z
name resolve order = hosts wins bcast
; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0
; bind interfaces only = true
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
max log size = 1000
; syslog only = no
syslog = 0

panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

# in the samba-doc package for details.
security = user

encrypt passwords = true

passdb backend = tdbsam

obey pam restrictions = yes

; guest account = nobody
;invalid users = root

unix password sync = yes

# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<[email protected]>
for
# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:*
%n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .

; pam password change = no

domain logons = yes

; logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
# Another common choice is storing the profile in the user's home directory
; logon path = \\%N\%U\profile

logon drive = H:
logon script = scripts/logon.bat
logon path = \\server1\profile\%U
# Useradd scripts
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false/ -d /var/lib/nobody %u
# # sync smb passwords woth linux passwords
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:*
%n\n .
passwd chat debug = yes
# set the loglevel
log level = 3
; logon home = \\%N\%U

; logon script = logon.cmd

# password; please adapt to your needs
; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u

; load printers = yes

; printing = bsd
; printcap name = /etc/printcap

printing = cups
printcap name = cups

; printer admin = @lpadmin

; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m

# SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
socket options = TCP_NODELAY

; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &

domain master = yes

idmap uid = 10000-20000
idmap gid = 10000-20000
template shell = /bin/bash

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %s
read only = no
browseable = no

; valid users = %S

; writable = no

; create mask = 0600

; directory mask = 0700
Logons
[netlogon]
comment = Network logon service
path = /home/samba/netlogon
admin users = administrator
valid users = %u
read only = no
guest ok = yes
writable = no
share modes = no

[profiles]
comment = User profiles
path = /home/samba/profiles
valid users = %u
create mode = 0600
writable = yes
browsable = no
directory mask = 0700

[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0700

# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
# printer drivers
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers

[SHARED DOCS]
path = /home/Shared Docs
guest ok = yes
case sensitive = no
writable = yes
msdfs proxy = no
root@server:/etc/samba#

Thanks in advance any help is appreciated.

 

I believe you need to insert the following under the [global] section of your smb.conf

workgroup = NETGEAR

Then restart samba, make sure your windows clients are set to be members of the "NETGEAR" workgroup or join the "NETGEAR" domain.

Hope this helps.

Chuck Rudolphy