Has smbpasswd -a -m changed??
Andrew Perrin - Demography
aperrin at demog.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Jul 28 15:26:03 GMT 1998
No, that's the way it's always been - check out the archives, ntdom
requires that machines have valid /etc/passwd (or NIS) accounts. My
understanding is that removing them from /etc/passwd is a bad idea, but
someone more familiar with samba should explain why.
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Celso Kopp Webber wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> My Samba PDC is working very well, thanks!
> However, when I use "smbpasswd -am machine"
> to add a machine to the samba domain, it complains
> that machine$ user doesn't exist in /etc/passwd.
>
> If I add machine$ to /etc/passwd I can do
> "smbpasswd -am machine". Then I can remove
> machine$ from /etc/passwd.
>
> Is this the correct new behaviour, or am I
> missing something?
>
> TIA,
>
> Celso.
>
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