[Samba] Computer Account

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 18:33, Andrey Nepomnyaschih wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does samba-3.0.0beta-1 still requires a computer account to be present
> inside OS user database? I had heard there were moves to make that
> obsolete. 

No, provided you correctly configure it, this is no longer required.

If you allocate 'idmap uid 10000-20000' then smbd will create accounts
in that range, if they don't already exist.  This will be tightened up a
little, but for machines should still work. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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