samba4 net join with pre-existing account

[Sam Liddicott]

  On 11/07/10 20:39, kiran kumar wrote:
> I was also keen on knowing if this is possible. In our case, we use
> Samba-3 'winbindd' to authenticate the users with the help of Windows
> Domain Controller.
>
> Is there any specific reason for having to create an account through
> "net join" and not use a pre-created account in Domain Controller. My
> only concern is in specifying the administrators password using "net
> join".

Have you tried using the samba 3 "net ads" commands?

This help page is related to what you want to do but doesn't give the 
specific examples you need.

Sam

> BestRegards,
> Kiran
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Sam Liddicott<sam at liddicott.com>  wrote:
>>   Is it possible to have samba4 join a domain without providing the
>> administrator password (as can be done on windows) by pre-creating the
>> computer account before provisioning?
>>
>> Normally I have my samba4 server join a domain with:
>>
>> $ net join $WORKGROUP member --realm=$REALM -U Administrator
>>
>> and provide a domain Administrator password
>>
>> I read here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150493
>>
>> that it should be possible to pre-create the computer account on the domain
>> controller with something like:
>> c:\>  netdom add $SAMBAHOST
>>
>> (which works)
>> and then on the client:
>> c:\>  NETDOM /Domain:MYDOMAIN MEMBER $SAMBAHOST /JOINDOMAIN
>>
>> The samba4 equivalent "net join" doesn't seem to have an option that doesn't
>> require an administrator password.
>>
>> Possibly samba3 "net ads" can handle this - but I recall that samba4 "net
>> join" uses netbios to join the domain instead of the rpc's used by samba3.
>>
>> I think I've now danced around the question; is the answer:
>> 1. I need to bring "net ads" to samba 4
>> 2. something else
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Sam
>>
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