How to add machine accounts?

(Carsten Wagner) wagner at zeus.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de
Thu Apr 8 07:37:25 GMT 1999


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Hi,


add a machine in the system passwd file with a following "$" (without the
quotes):

testmachine$: and so on.

Then you can do

smbpasswd -am testmachine$.


Good luck,


Schnaggy :-)

On 08-Apr-99 Andre Anneck wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 3.1, Samba 2.0.3,
> 
> When I try to add a machine account it always gives me
> "bla <machine_name$> does not exist in system password file" 
> or something like this, sorry have my box not handy right now.
> 
> I edited /etc/passwd
> And inserted some testusers, referring to those people who already 
> did it... 
> 
> I try to add the account with
> /smbpasswd -a -m <machine_name>
> 
> I have read several mails in the archive that claim that it would be 
> as easy as that. Addin a line in /etc/passwd, then using 
> smbpasswd with options a, m.
> 
> I think I missed something so obvious I cant see it... please open 
> my eyes... I would like to have the Samba Box to be my PDC... 
> *sniff*.
> 
> 
> The UORMSS - Source Net
> http://www.anneck.de/rmss
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