i am trying to set up a samba-server as PDC with LDAP-backend. my system is: debian/woody with a samba-3.0.1 backport (from backport.org) i have created a machine-account for my w2k-client "CLIENT$" there is a sambaSamAccount for "root" in the ldap; using "smbpasswd" to create sambaSamAccount's out of posixAccounts in the ldap works perfectly i can mount shares from the samba-server onto the w2k-client with user "root" and the secret password using "net use x: \\SERVER\netlogon /USER:root" when trying to join the domain from the CLIENT, i give user "root" and the secret password. after some (rather short) time i get a pop-up "unknown user/passord" (or similar; it is german...) reading the log.smbd-file it says something about "decode_pw_buffer: incorrect password length (-1474045907)" using 3.0.0final (as it is called in debian) joining the domain works perfectly. unfortunately i cannot provide any solutions. mfg.a.sdr IOhannes
please retest 3.0.8 once it is released and reopen if not fixed.
sorry for the same, cleaning up the database to prevent unecessary reopens of bugs.