[Samba] Machine trust account reqd in 2.2.3a?

[Christian Barth]

> > Since the text was last updated in July of 2001, and there have been
> > several releases of SAMBA since, is the /etc/passwd account for machine
> > trust accounts still required in 2.2.3a?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> (The account is created for you if you supply the root username and password
> when prompted by a Windows client that you are joining to a domain.)
But only if you have set up an approprieate "add user skript" in 
smb.conf. Other wiese this will only create the machine account in 
private/smbpasswd an the machine account in /etc/passwd has to exist 
first.

Christian

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