Cannot find domain primary controller

Mike Harris mike at psand.net
Tue Dec 7 11:05:45 GMT 1999


Well yes and no, depends on what you want ....

Under RedHat:

-s /dev/null - always exists and always works well as a null login shell.
-M - doesn't create a home directory, leave out if needed.
- g - RedHat automatically puts new users into users.

It's a question of preference and what you are doing, I suggest the man
pages ......

Mike.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Bannon <D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au>
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 11:59 PM
Subject: RE: Cannot find domain primary controller


> 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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