samba as a pdc for win2k

[Leigh Finch]

I'm trying to get win2k to connect in legacy mode as if it were connecting to 
an nt4 server. the problem is getting smbpasswd to recognize the machine 
username in /etc/passwd.

>  Samba 2.2.x will not make a PDC for a win2k active directory domain. you
> can however use it as a NT4 domain PDC that win2k sill understand.
>
>  Samba 3.0 (in alpha) is the one that is supposed to have all the new M$
>  Active Directory stuff. If you want to play with alpha software- go for
>  it...
>
>  Regards
>  TMC
>
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:42:11PM +1000, Leigh Finch wrote:
> > g'day all,
> > I'm just playing around with samba as a pdc, now I think I understand
> > machine and user accounts, as I understand it Freebsd has a problem with
> > using $ in usernames, I have edited the passwd & and also master passwd,
> > to add the $ but the smbpasswd program won't find the user test$ when
> > creating the machine account. I'm using samba 2.2.3a. I have downloaded
> > the 2.2 faq and I can't see anything overly obviouse.
> >
> > any ideas would be appreciated, thanks in advance
> > Leigh Finch