Cannot find domain primary controller

David Bannon D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
Mon Dec 6 22:57:28 GMT 1999


At 07:00 AM 07/12/1999 +1100, Mike Harris wrote:
>Marco,
>
>Hang on.  You're running the Samba server as a PDC and joining the domain
>from an NT or Samba box, right?
>
>Remember that you have to add a UNIX user account (with the $ sign), for
>RHL6.x, something like:
>
>% useradd client$ -c "My Client Machine" -s /dev/null -n -M
>

er, should that be :

useradd -c "My Client Machine" -s /bin/false -n -d /dev/null -g machines
client$
 ?

-s being shell
-d being home directory
-n don't make a self named group 
-g set primary group (which must exist)

David
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