alias name can't join domain
Herb Lewis
herb at sgi.com
Thu Jan 24 15:04:08 GMT 2002
You can specify the other directory within the smb.conf file
lock dir should be what you need.
Dwight Tovey wrote:
>
> I think I see what my problem is, but I'm not sure of how to fix it.
>
> I need to be able to have Samba handle shares for multiple netbios
> names/aliases and use a remote PDC for authentication.
>
> If I change my smb.conf file from
> netbios name = alpha9
> netbios aliases = dev_svc
> to
> netbios name = dev_svc
> bind interfaces only = yes
> interfaces = 10.1.9.59 <---- the IP address of 'dev_svc'
>
> and then run the 'smbpasswd -j' again, I can then connect to dev_svc,
> but not alpha9, even if I set the netbios name and netbios aliases lines
> back.
>
> I think what is happening is that the 'secrets.tdb' file gets a Machine
> Account Password for the last name that was set by netbios name when
> smbpasswd was run. What I need then (I think) is for a separate
> password for each netbios name/alias to be stored in the secrets file
> and used as appropriate. Alternativly, I can have a separate smbd
> process running for each name/alias, each using it's own config file and
> secrets file. I can specify a different config file to use with the -s
> flag, but as far as I've been able to tell, the only way to specify a
> different secrets file is to recompile the server and specify the file
> at that time, which means a different binary file for each name. Yuck.
>
> Does anybody have a better way to use multiple names/aliases with a PDC?
>
> /dwight
>
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