[Samba] Join Machine to Domain

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 05:24, manuel.piessnegger at straumann.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> In a other manual (http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/smb-ldap-3-howto.html)
> they write that there must exist a user with uid =0 that meens at the end
> JUST ROOT OR UID=0 can join w2k client into a domain.
> 
> In the [SAMBA_3_0] and [HEAD] only a few basic entries are required: nobody
> and administrator BUT an account with uidNumber=0 (root or administrator)
> MUST  be present if you need add XP/W2K ws. The reason: an administrative
> account is demanded in the ws side in the join process, and that account
> must have a uidNumber=0 in the unix world.
> 
> Is there really no other way as to work with a user with uid=0 in the unix
> world?  I'm sorry but I make no more progress, hmm...... dead brain
> 
> By the way all Unix and Samba Accounts are presents in the LDAP

Yep - we have a very simple bit of code that does a very dumb check for
uid==0.  This should be fixed, it might even be in bugzilla, but that's
the deal for the moment.

Andrew Bartlett

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