Corrupt smbpasswd and joining a domain

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:42:07AM -0600, sambastuff at jabba.glfc.com wrote:
> Is it a bug that if you delete a UNIX user without deleting the smbpasswd
> user, you cannot join a user to a domain?
> 
> Basicly, everytime the smbpasswd file is "corrupt", no new machines can be
> joined to the domain (SAMBA 2_2 CVS today)

Yes, this hit me also.

I'd say, that this is a reflection of a not correctly (aka automated)
Unix-smbpasswd sync set up. OTOH, there will be lots of admins that will also
fall into this pitfall, so maybe it would be worth examining before the
actual release.

Regards, Axel.
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Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de