samba-tng: Cannot create trust account as admin.

[Greg Dickie]

Hmmm.

This doesn't look right

from log.samr


nitialising map
getpwnam(EDINBURGH-NT$)
EDINBURGH-NT$ not found
getpwnam(edinburgh-nt$)
Found: edinburgh-nt$:*:4261:510:Samba machine trust account:/dev/null:/dev/null
search by uid: 10a5
startfileent: opening file /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
startfileent: unable to open file /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
unable to open sam password database.
pwdb_sam_map_names: NULL
getpwnam(EDINBURGH-NT$)
EDINBURGH-NT$ not found


I had similar stuff when domain_map was in the private directory but I'm
assuming smbpasswd still needs to be protected. Let me know if I'mon the right
track ;-)

Greg 



On 17-Jan-00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> hmmm..... that shouldn't be the case.
> 
> you're using "admin/pass" in the dialog box?
> 
> try removing the workstation trust account from private/smbpasswd.
> 
> check if it gets added, what the "flags" are set to.  it if says "[DW
> ]", let me know, i think i may still have a bug, there.
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Greg Dickie wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>   Apologies if this is a known bug but I finally managed to get TNG working
>>   for
>> me by zapping all the "private" files and recreating them. I seem to have
>> domain admin. privileges and profiles are fine BUT if I want to join a
>> workstation to the domain without using smbpasswd first (ie: just the NT
>> dialog), it does not seem to work (it did in the old 2.1 code). It tells me
>> my
>> account does not have privilege. Any pointers to where I could start looking
>> to
>> debug this?
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
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