[Samba] Cant find uid=0

[Andrew Bartlett]

Philip Burrow wrote:
> 
> Im having a problem adding machines to a domain. All has been fine until
> today. This is the output when I try to add a machine (WinXP). It appears to
> be looking for a root user in my LDAP directory but isnt finding it (because
> there isnt a user 'root' there). User 'Administrator' exists.
> 
> Must there be an instance of 'root' in Samba LDAP backends? I've ploughed
> through the idealx HOWTO for this, but Messrs Lemaire don't explicitly
> create a root user. Can someone help?

Don't make the user you use to join the domain an 'admin user', either
use root, or a member of the 'domain admins group'.  Yes, this is
confusing, and is fixed in 3.0

Andrew Bartlett

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