[Samba] Machine trust account reqd in 2.2.3a?

Frank Fürst ffrank at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Thu Feb 28 03:34:41 GMT 2002


Matthew Hagerty <matthew at brwholesale.com> schrieb:

> 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.  
> 
> Are you saying that SAMBA takes care of all these details now?

No, you should just add a "if setup correctly" to the sentence in
brackets up there.

Bye, Frank
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