[Samba] Computer Account

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:46, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 07:26, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 18:33, Andrey Nepomnyaschih wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Does samba-3.0.0beta-1 still requires a computer account to be present
> > > inside OS user database? I had heard there were moves to make that
> > > obsolete. 
> > 
> > No, provided you correctly configure it, this is no longer required.
> > 
> > If you allocate 'idmap uid 10000-20000' then smbd will create accounts
> > in that range, if they don't already exist.  This will be tightened up a
> > little, but for machines should still work. 
> 
> So does that mean that Samba 3.0 can automatically add machine accounts
> in the LDAP directory without the need of some sort of useradd script?

That is the intention.

Andrew Bartlett

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