Joining an NT Domain

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi all,

I have this really strange problem right now. I'm trying to join a 
Fedora Core 4 computer to a Windows NT domain (Note: NT domain, not 
Active Directory. No AD servers on my network, and yes, I know that 
support for NT servers has expired -- but that is a whole other 
story;)). I'm running Winbind and Samba 3.x and I followed instructions 
from all over the Internet. Seems like there is a lot of variation in 
the articles I found. Some mentioned that Winbind is needed and some 
provide instructions for a Samba-only configuration. As far as I can 
determine, these are the steps:

1. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to allow winbind authentication
2. Edit smb.conf to specify joining a NT domain
3. Run samba and winbind and try to join the domain manually, using "net 
join" command

I got as far as step 3. The funny thing is, my computer shows up under 
Network Neighbourhood, but I am unable to join the domain manually using 
the "net join" command. The errors say something like "no such user", 
even though I am joining using Administrator. The errors are on my 
computer at work, so I can't provide the actual output. If it helps, I 
can post up the required setup files (nsswitch.conf, smb.conf and 
anything else that may help).

Has anybody had any success with getting a Linux computer to join a NT 
Domain? I've actually seen it with a laptop running Suse, but I can't 
find any article on Fedora Core that can help.

Lonni, I seem to remember you asking the same question some weeks back. 
Were you able to solve your difficulties?

Thanks in advance,
pascal chong