[Samba] Samba Domain Emu

[Marc Prewitt]

Todd Johnson wrote:

> Hi Marc
> 
> I have a question here. One of the directions on that link you sent is this
> 
> To allow anyone to actually join, however, you'll need to add a 
> smbpasswd entry for the user "root" -- this is required!
> 
> Does this actually mean add the "root" account to the smbpasswd file? I 
> take it this wants me to add the servers root account that samba is 
> running on correct?

Yes, but other notes I read mentioned that you should use a different 
password than your actual root password for security.

> 
> My flags went off so I am cautious about this.
> 
> Todd
> 
> Marc Prewitt wrote:
> 
>> See the Samba PDC section of:
>>
>> http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/
>>
>> Todd Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have read that Samba can emulate an NT Domain. Is this still 
>>> possible? I dont see much about it listed anymore. Is it still 
>>> supported in 2.2.8a. Does anyone have any information concerning 
>>> this? We would like our version to do this so we can do some testing 
>>> with one of our NetApp 880's.
>>>
>>
>>
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