[Samba] Samba PDC on FreeBSD problem?

[Martyn Ranyard]

At 03:30 PM 3/14/02 +0100, Erik Ranà wrote:
>Problem: Samba running as a PDC on a FreeBSD, the clients can connect 
>without computer accounts and browse the shares in the domain.
>
>Should the PDC allow that?
>As far as i have understood the PDC should refuse since the computer does 
>not have a account in the domain regardless that the user have a user account?
>Can it somehow be that i have named the computers as the users, user bob 
>with computer bob
>But samba shuld not do that since it require a $ and W istead of U in 
>smbpasswd file?

That's not quite true - if a machine does not have an account in the 
domain, that computer cannot join the domain.  Users, on the other hand can 
access files on the server.  This is the way M$ implemented it, and there's 
no way around it.  You are getting exactly the same behavior as if you had 
a Windows-based Domain server.

>Also i get this in the samba.log???
>[2002/03/13 16:08:49, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1517)
>  domain_client_validate: could not fetch trust account password for 
> domain DOMAIN

Don't know about that one, maybe one of the team can comment.

>/Erik Ranà

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Martyn Ranyard

I am not a member of the samba team,
and anything that I say may not be as
accurate as a response from one of the
team.  I reply to save those more
qualified time, which can more usefully
be spent developing SAMBA further.