Samba 2.2.2 Capabilities

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Michael Jennings wrote:

> Does the command:
>
>   smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r win2kads -U user -m

You do not need the '-m'.  That's for creating a machine
account on a Samba PDC.

> need to be issued every time the Linux boxes are booted?  And must a
> password be given each time, if so?

No. Once is all you need.  The password is stored in the secrets.tdb
file.

> Also, does the "user" account passed to -U require administrative
> privileges?  If so, why is this not needed for normal Windows boxes to
> join a domain?  Perhaps there is something I'm neglecting to do on the
> 2k/ADS side of things?

Yes it does require admin priviledges.

> On the flip side, is it possible for Samba 2.x/3.0 to act as an ADS
> server? at least to the point where one can use the pretty little
> Active Directory admin tools to control it? :-)

No.








chau, jerry
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