[Samba] Doco conflict (smb.conf(5) vs. HOWTO-Collection)

Mac dmccann at nibsc.ac.uk
Tue Feb 19 06:53:39 GMT 2002


Hi all,


There seems to be a conflict in the online documentation as to the
'security =' level and the 'add user script'.


  http://ie.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1146

says that you have to have 'security = user' in order to have
Samba behave as a PDC.  Further on :-

  http://ie.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1231

it says you can use the 'add user script' to have Samba automatically
create the UNIX user accounts for machine trust accounts. (Samba
automatically creates the smbpasswd machine trust account, although I
can't find this behaviour documented anywhere)

Anyway, the smb.conf(5) man page:-

  http://ie.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#ADDUSERSCRIPT

says that 'add user script' only works in 'domain' or 'server' security
mode.

So which is it?  Does 'add user script' work in 'security = user'?


                               Mac
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