Domain issue

[Red Squirrel]

On this one workstation every time I try to set permissions it says furrnt. I cannot do it.

I get a prompt to enter a domain admin password so I do, then I get that other error about it conflicting (whatever that's supose to mean). Tried rebooting, tried removing/rejoining domain. Nothing.

Domain controller is Samba in FC9.

This is the error dialog:
http://www.iceteks.com/misc/domainerror.png

 

[Skunk]

It means the computer is already connected to the domain controller with an existing username and password. You are trying to enter a second set and are getting the conflict message. When connecting to the network share use the username and password from the existing connection or drop the existing connection and re-initiate it with your username and password.

Type "net use" at a command prompt to see the existing remembered connections. Either use that one or "net use \\sharename /d" to drop the existing and recreate with your new username/password.

 

[Red Squirrel]

hmm that's odd, I've always done it that way before. The current logged in user is not domain admin (afaik there's no way in samba to make a domain admin, only root is one) guess I can login to windows as root and do it that way.

 

[Skunk]

Ideally you want the connection created under the logged in user or you will run into the same problem with other network resources including printers. Logging in as the daily user you want to work with and dropping the previous connections and recreating them will give you less headaches over the long run.