[Samba] Do machine accounts have to be group 100

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Fri May 24 22:11:02 GMT 2002


> Ben Tullis wrote:
> 
> I have got samba 2.2.3 running, acting as a PDC for my domain of Win2k
> workstations.
> The adduser script is working and I can join machines to the domain
> 'on the fly'
> 
> My question is; what are the implications of changing the group id of
> the workstation machine accounts to a value other than 100?

None.  Only the uid is ever consulted.  (I think the gid might get
looked at, but nobody cares about it's value.)

Andrew Bartlett

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