How to add machine accounts?

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

I believe it needs to be

MYPDC$

not 

mypdc$

but I could be wrong.

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Dave J. Andruczyk wrote:

> > Ok... I guess I didnt make myself clear enough.
> > I have the trailing $ at the machine-accounts name wich is the 
> > username in the /etc/passwd... 
> > but when I run smbpasswd it still complains about the account 
> > would not be existend... ??!!!?!?... 
> > 
> > Here is what I do:
> > 1. Edit /etc/passwd, add the following line:
> > mypdc$:dummy:1001:1001:test:/dev/nul:/usr/sbin
> > 2. Save /etc/passwd
> > 3. Do at the prompt: 
> > /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a -m mypdc
> > 
> > And I get this response:
> > User "mypdc$" was not found in system password file.
> > 
> > What am I missing????
> 
> Do you have SHADOW passwords enabled? if so there has to be the mating
> line in /etc/shadow.  Its usually easiest to use the system "adduser" tool
> for creating the machine accounts. i.e?( on redhat 5.x "adduser -n
> mypdc$") (the "-n" turns off redhats "user private groups" which suck
> anyway)
> 
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> Instructional Support Associate
> Department of Technology     
> Buffalo State College
> 
> 
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