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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