Samba 2.2.2 Capabilities
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
jerry at samba.org
Sat Jan 12 03:03:49 GMT 2002
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Michael Jennings wrote:
> Does the command:
>
> smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r win2kads -U user -m
You do not need the '-m'. That's for creating a machine
account on a Samba PDC.
> need to be issued every time the Linux boxes are booted? And must a
> password be given each time, if so?
No. Once is all you need. The password is stored in the secrets.tdb
file.
> Also, does the "user" account passed to -U require administrative
> privileges? If so, why is this not needed for normal Windows boxes to
> join a domain? Perhaps there is something I'm neglecting to do on the
> 2k/ADS side of things?
Yes it does require admin priviledges.
> On the flip side, is it possible for Samba 2.x/3.0 to act as an ADS
> server? at least to the point where one can use the pretty little
> Active Directory admin tools to control it? :-)
No.
chau, jerry
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