Also no PDC found

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Thu Feb 5 18:47:36 GMT 1998


On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Michel wrote:
> 
> > The docs mention having to add a line to smbpasswd for every machine,
> > then a line that it's no longer needed =). Do I or don't I ? 
> > (what this line exactly looks like is a bit obscure in the docs).
> 
> the line must exist. It looks like:
> 
> joker$:301:8D6C948F63B4E826AAD3B435B51404EE:
> 86B3A8B1D8DE8B3C2406A673B37EC063:machine joker:/home/joker:/bin/tcsh
> 
> it have to be on a single line, i split it for readability.
> 
> to create it, the easy way is:
> 
> 	1) add a line in /etc/passwd
> 	the corresponding line to the above is:
> 	joker$::301:300:machine joker:/home/joker:/bin/tcsh
> 
> 	2) run smbpasswd as
> 	smbpasswd -add joker$ joker

ah.  actually, adding a unix user joker$ is a _good_ idea.  you might want
to make sure that you don't have a login shell, but you might want to have
a home directory.  i may end up putting some info in a ~.smbpasswd file...

luke



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