Re: nslookup from Windows resolves domain and pdc correctly but still gets cannot contact on samba 3.2.5-4 on lenny

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My Domain SMB knowledge is slightly rusty but here goes...
>
> 1. Your Samba server's ip address ends with a 0, which, AFAIK, is
> reserved for network addresses (unless it has some special purpose
> like the the /32 netmask). What is the output of "ifconfig -a"?
>

Thanks for the help Tom :-)

So What I did was remove the interfaces restrictions altogether

and put

172.16.2.0        hifxnx

in the hosts file of windows workstations

now every thing is fine.

but I had to manuall create the group 'machines' to successfully join the domain

Thanks

--Siju