Making a SLES 8 box join SAMBA domain

Novell Cool Solutions: Question & Answer

Posted: 13 Aug 2004

Q:
What is the command to have a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 box join a SAMBA domain?



A:
The command and switches you need are:
smbpasswd -j domainname -r remoteservername.

Be sure that the remoteservername is the PDC for the domain being joined.

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