Unable to join Win2k Pro SP2 to Samba 2.2.2 PDC

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On 9 Jan 2002, Kohei Yoshida wrote:

> Unfortunately there is no other way to join win2k without using "add
> user script".  So you need to go ahead and implement it.  Just to
> clarify, "add user script" is for adding *machine accounts*, not for
> adding ordinary *users* (I know it's a bit confusing).  For adding
> users, your method is the way to go.

No entirely true.  The "add user script" is only run when a getpwnam()
call failed during an authentication request.  You can manually create the
/etc/passwd entries, but you are corrcet in that the root account entry in
smbpasswd is a necessity.





> > root:0:AAD3B435B51404EEAAD3B435B51404EE:31D6CFE0D16AE931B73C59D7E0C089C0:[U
> > ]:LCT-3C3A1FE6:root,,,


Whoever sent this should change the password :-)






chau, jerry
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