[Samba] Auto machine account creation

Justin Georgeson jgeorgeson at unboundtech.com
Wed Oct 9 04:59:00 GMT 2002


I think it should be u$. Is the useradd failing or is the process of 
having it added to smbpasswd failing?

Sam Silvester wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I've got Samba 2.2.5 installed in a network of 3 client machines all running
> xp pro.
> 
> Everything works ok except "on-the-fly" machine account creation...from what
> I've read I need something like
> 
> add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -M $u
> 
> but this doesn't work for some reason.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or haven't considered?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Sam.
> 
> 

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