[Samba] Adding computer account - username could not be found

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 06:05, Andrew Judge wrote:
> I'm trying to add a computer account as root and I am getting the
> following error:
> 
> "the user name could not be found"
> 
> The root account appears in the smbpasswd file and I have access to the
> server when I use the root credentials.
> 
> I have the following in the smb.conf file to add users:
> 
> add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c "machine
> account" -s /bin/false -M %u

This script must be failing.

Andrew Bartlett

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