During some troubleshooting I deleted the machine account for a Linux server running samba from our AD 2003 domain. We are using Kerberos for authentication, and after I deleted the machine account I tried
to join the domain again using
net ads join -U Administrator
But I keep getting Kerberos errors like these:
[2009/08/18 16:14:36, 0] libads/kerberos.c:ads_kinit_password(228)
kerberos_kinit_password
[email protected] failed: Client not found in Kerberos database
Failed
to join domain: Improperly formed account name
It appears as if samba remembers that it once had an account with the AD and keeps trying
to reconnect
to it, but I want
to create a new account from scratch. I tried
to delete all the .tdb files I could find as well as everything under /var/cache/samba but
to no avail - it still behaves the same.
I also tried
to create the machine account on the AD side, but then I get a similar error when I try
to join, about failure
to authenticate with the machine account - it looks like samba tries the previous machine account password and I don't know how
to reset it, or even if I could figure out what samba uses - how
to set it in the AD.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as at this point the only thing I can think about is
to reformat and reinstall the machine, and I would really REALLY love
to not do that.
Thanks in advance.
