machine names same as usernames -> problems...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:47:47PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote: 
> > > > > adil (users) and
> > > > > adil$ (machine)
> > > > > cannot work.
> > > > 
> > > > Why can't it work?  I've seen this discussed a number of times, but
> > > > never really been told why it doesn't work.  That $ is there for exactly
> > > > that reason you know - to make them different.  
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > Can you describe the failure please? 
> > > I thought this was well known...
> > > The machine simply fails to join the domain. With a message about bad
> > > password or invalid machine account.
> > 
> > Under what circumstances can't/doesn't this work?
> > 
> > Does it not work only in the case that adil and adil$ both exist in the 
> > passwd database of the Samba server? 
> > 
> > If that is the case, then the code that allows the machine to log onto the 
> > trust account is probably checking for the 'adil' account and refusing to 
> > let it happen.
> 
> No such code exists.  

Hmmm, that is interesting. Maybe I need to try this myself to see what the 
issues are.

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