[Samba] Specified User Does not exist ?

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2003, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 19:47, Bob wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I hope I'm missing something simple. This is my second PDC install and
> > I'm having some problems getting my win2k machine to join the domain.
> > First I made the machine account:
> >
> > useradd -g 100 -d /dev/null -c "bob's computer" -s /bin/false office1$

useradd -g 100 -d /dev/null -c "bob's computer" -s /bin/false office1\$

> >
> > Then I lock the password:
> >
> > passwd -l office1$

passwd -l office1\$

> >
> > Next I make the smbpasswd -am office1 name.
> shouldn't that be office1$?

smbpasswd -a -m office1

Note: No trailing '$' to the smbpasswd account creation line, both the
useradd and passwd lines require the '$' to be escaped by a '\'.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org