Required Samba user id's

[Greg J. Zartman]

Lista,

A couple things:

1. You don't need to have an account on your windows machines for root, even
though the Samba PDC FAQs state that you do.  Simply log into the Win2k
machine on a user account with Power User access or greater the then join
the domain.  When Win2k asks for authentication to join the domain, then use
the root username and password.

2.  I configure the add user script parameter in my smb.conf file to add the
machine account to the unix and samba password files (add user script =
/user/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$

3.  I'm not a veteran unix user, so this comment my be obvious to the
veterain.  I find that if I edit my smbpasswd file with anything but the
command line editors (e.g., joe & vi), it makes it unreadable to Samba.

Good luck.

Greg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lista linux" <linux at fenix.uam.mx>
To: <R.J.Mckeating at lboro.ac.uk>
Cc: "'samba-ntdom'" <samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Required Samba user id's


> hi,
>
> remove the machine entry from smbpasswd and try again, it worked for me.
>
> cu.
>
> romy
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 R.J.Mckeating at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > This is driving me daft,
> >
> > I cannot get a w2k machine to connect to a rhu box running the latest
samba as a
> > pdc. I think I am going to cry or maybe just go down the pub.
> >
> > OK is it true you have to be root to "join the domain", what do "join
the
> > domain" actually mean. I have a machine entry in the /etc/passwd file of
> >
> > pc00-rjm$::31465:31465::/dev/null:/bin/false
> > obviously there is a root password in /etc/passwd
> >
> > There is an entry for the machine in the smbpasswd file of
> >
> >
pc00-rjm$:31465:2287DD5C8BA901D21486235A2333E4D2:EFEF3A0E219AA2CDB599C25FAF6
E1C87:[DW
> > ]:LCT-3AC1B671:
> >
> > If I do /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a root I get
> >
> > ERROR: Badly formed boolean in configuration file: "ues".
> > INFO: Debug class all level = 3   (pid 3270 from pid 3270)
> > New SMB password:
> >
> > I put in the password for root and then in /private/smbpasswd I have the
entry
> >
> >
> >
root:0:FA1961430A96F9BEAAD3B435B51404EE:53F0FAE7D53BBE6C90F843ECEB71DCA0:[U
> > ]:LCT-3AC1B5D1:
> >
> >
> > Now on my w2k machine I tell it to join the domain, I put in the user as
root
> > and the password for root and I get the error
> >
> > The account used is a computer account.  Use your global or local user
account
> > to access this server.
> >
> >
> > So does anybody know what I am doing wrong, can anybody clearly
enumerate the
> > steps for getting w2k machine to connect to a samba running as a pdc,
what
> > accounts have to be created with what command in what file. And also
what
> > accounts have to exist on the w2k machine.
> >
> >
> > Realy could use some help here as I feel I am going round in cirles,
maybe I am
> > just dim.
> >
> > Cheers all
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > Ron McKeating
> > Computing Services
> > Loughborough University
> > 01509 222329
> >
>
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