RFC patch to allow servicepack param to be passed to net ads join cmd

David Disseldorp ddiss at suse.de
Wed Jan 7 08:09:20 MST 2015


On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:41:27 +0000, Noel Power wrote:

> I wanted to pass the osVer and osName attributes when joining via 'net
> ads join' so that the Windows AD Server shows that information in the
> Operating System [*] tab of the newly joined computer account. However
> by default the samba version is shown in the 'Service pack' field. The
> service pack information is sent automatically, it's not currently
> possibly to change what is sent. To offer more flexibility this patch
> adds the ability to specify an additional parameter as part of the 'net
> ads join' cmd to set
> a value for the service pack field, (if the new param is not specified
> previous behaviour is preserved and the samba version is used)
> 
> e.g. net ads -UAdministrator join osVer='13.2' osName='openSUSE' 
> osServicePack=''

This patch looks fine to me.

Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>

Cheers, David


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