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I am using two virtualbox machines, one running XUbuntu 12.4 LTs and the other running a Windows XP as a testbed for implementing a Samba-based domain. The Linux machine is my PDC and the XP machine is the client. Samba uses LDAP as a backend.

The installation is almost successful and I managed to join my XP machine to the domain. Nevertheless when I try to log in using an existing user, I receive the following error:

The system cannot log you on now because the domain is not available

As I said before, the server and the client are both running on two virtualbox machines. After the installtion of my server and joining the network, I put both machines to Internal Networking mode and I can ping each machine from the other.

Samba version is 3.6.3

Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? Do I need a gateway or DNS address? I am totally running out of ideas :((

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  • For a Samba question, this needs much more information to be able to get a definitive answer
    – Magellan
    Apr 18, 2013 at 16:28

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One minute of searching I found " in SAMBA HOWTO section 3.5.5. The problem was that one has to create users (local & smb ) and machine trust account after installation and configuring SAMBA server not before it. Otherwise samba would consider them as local system account. "

Otherwise you can try: Run wireshark and see what packets are being dropped between the two machines. Perhaps a port is blocked (netbios)? Are the clocks on the two machines in sync? What IP addresses do the two computers have? IS there a firewall/iptables running on the PDC?

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  • Thank you for the reponse but I have well cretaed the users and machine trust accounts after installation and configuration of my SAMBA server. I again verified this using pbedit command.
    – alibaba
    Apr 19, 2013 at 9:34
  • In addition I have already successfully joined the domain but in the login screen it can't contact the domain.
    – alibaba
    Apr 19, 2013 at 9:47

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