net user add <name> [-F user flags] ...

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at ns.aus.com
Mon Oct 7 07:23:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:22:26PM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > net help user suggests that net user add accepts optional -F user_flags,
> > > but in scanning the code, I don't see any flags being processed.
> > >
> > > Does the code actually accept flags?
> > >
> > > Can you use the above command to create a domain trust account, or must
> > > you use the smbpasswd command?
> > 
> > Yes, but not against samba dc. Samba doesn't implement SAMR call which
> > creates an account. Thus, it works only against native WinNT server.
> > Or at least worked when I checked this last time.
> 
> Samba *does* implement the createuser SAMR call, so this should work...
> (Both 2.2 and HEAD)

However, there seems to be no way to specify that you want a workstation 
trust account or a domain trust account rather than an ordinary user.

At least, not in the net user add command.

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com




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