[Samba] Computer Account

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:23, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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.

Maybe the Samba 3.0 docs should be updated for this. Also would it be
possible to get user accounts from an LDAP directory and computer
accounts from another user database like the tdbsam_nua? This way the
LDAP directory wouldn't get filed with information that's only relevant
to Samba. Also is there a smb.conf documentation page that lists all the
configuration options for Samba 3.0? I'm installing Samba 3.0 and gonna
start testing with it a bit soon and I'm sure I'll have a few questions
soon.

Thanks

Jean-Rene Cormier