[Samba] Machine trust account reqd in 2.2.3a?

[Christian Barth]

> At 06:36 PM 2/27/2002 +0000, Steven Mackenzie wrote:
> > > 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.)
> 
> I'm confused by your comment.  The HOW-TO for using SAMBA as a PDC says 
> that I have to create machine trust accounts either 1. manually, or 2. on 
> the fly by adding something similar to this in my smb.conf:
> 
> add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
> 
> It also says that I must include a "root" user in my smbpasswd file and 
> suggests a password that is different from the real root password.
> 
> Are you saying that SAMBA takes care of all these details now? 
2.2.3a does not care about these details. The HowTo is correct.

 Also, if it 
> makes any difference, the client(s) I'm trying to add are XP.
There have been a couple of reports about it on the list. Should work 
the same as w2k but you need to apply a registry key in xp first. 
It's in the samba source tar ball.

Christian


> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
> 
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