Machine account

[Gerald W. Carter]

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Tim Winders wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Gerald W. Carter wrote:
> 
> > smbpasswd -add nobody opt
> > 
> > This will create the entry and you can then edit the username and replace
> > it with opt$ as well as inserting the :0080: field following the password
> > hash.
> 
> Great.  This created the account for nobody, I changed the name to opt$.
> So far, so good.  It put in the nobody group number, but the NTDOMAIN.txt
> file doesn't list that.  Does the group number need to be removed?  What
> password did the above command put in the smbpasswd file?  Does it matter?
>  Thanks!

the password was set to the third parameter ( "opt" ).  The only things
that matter in the machine account entry are

MACHINE$:uid:XXXXXXXXX......:......XXXXXXXX:0080:

whete uid is whatever ( i have been using the nobody account uid and am
not sure what part this integer actually plays in the logon process ).
Note that the last ':' is necessary


Hope this helps,
j-
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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