[Samba] A question about Samba as a PDC, Windows 2000 and the user 'Administrator'

[Ryan Novosielski]

You may want the "username map" parameter in smb.conf to map Administrator
to "root" on your Samba server. Take a look and see what you think.

---- _  _ _  _ ___  _  _  _
|Y#| |  | |\/| |  \ |\ |  |  | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin
|$&| |__| |  | |__/ | \| _|  | novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922)
\__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jason Williams wrote:

> Morning everyone.
>
> I was doing some thinking this weekend about a couple of things. Basically,
> about the use of the account 'Administrator', the default account for Win2K.
> Our setup:
>
> Samba 2.2.8a with LDAP on the backend, running as the PDC.
>
> What I was curious about is how to effectively use the 'administrator'
> account, (the default administrator account that is used on Windows 2000)
> for my Windows 2000 machines that are on my network.
> For instance, I know I can log in with a normal user, but, what about if I
> wanted to log in with the administrator account? Also, if I wanted to use
> the 'Run as' feature that comes with Windows 2000?
>
> Would it be best to just add an account called "administrator" to the
> domain admins account? I already have a 'root' account that I use to join
> machines to the domain. Should I just add the administrators account to the
> domain admins account? Will this let me log in effectively with
> administrator privileges to my Windows 2000 computers as well as use the
> ''Run as" feature?
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> Jason
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
>