alias name can't join domain

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jan 25 09:06:18 GMT 2002


On 25 Jan 2002, Dwight Tovey wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 08:13, Gerald Carter wrote:
>
> >
> > This is a limitation (feature) of the current Samba code.
> > If you really need this right now, you should look at running multiple,
> > concurrent servers on the same host (see "interfaces", "bind interfaces
> > only", "lock directory", etc...in smb.conf(5)).
> >
> > You will probably also need to define separate private directories via
> > compile time options (for MACHINE.SID, secrets.tdb should be ok....).
> >
>
> Thanks for the response Jerry.
>
> I had pretty much come to the same conclusion (needing to run a separate
> server for each name) but I thought it was going to be because of
> secrets.tdb instead of MACHINE.SID.  Since they are both in the private
> directory, I guess it doesn't matter which one is causing my problem.
> As far as I can tell from looking through the source (and from your
> comment above) I'll need to have a separate binary for each name with
> the private path compiled in.  I can live with that, but it would be
> nice if private could be a run-time config option.

Well private is generated from the directory name in the
"smb passwd file" parameter.







chau, jerry
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