Unclear statement in 2.2 PDC howto
Gerald Carter
jerry at samba.org
Wed Sep 4 14:39:04 GMT 2002
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Kai Blin wrote:
> The section "Creating Machine Trust Accounts and Joining Clients to the
> Domain" reads:
>
> * "On-the-fly" creation. The Samba machine trust account is automatically
> created by Samba at the time the client is joined to the domain. (For
> security, this is the recommended method.) The corresponding Unix
> account may be created automatically or manually.
>
> You should add a note that for Win2k, there _has_ to be a add user script.
No there doesn't. If the UNIX account already exists, then there is no
add user script needed.
> This could also be mentioned in the section "On-the-Fly" Creation of Machine
> Trust Accounts. A passage there reads:
>
> This method is not required, however; corresponding Unix accounts may also
> be created manually.
Right. This is what I mentioned above. Note sure what is confusing
here....
cheers, jerry
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