[Samba] Re: 3.0 PDC Cannot find root user

[Jason Zhang]

It looks like the script for "add user script" does work well. I guess 
if you mark that line out, you will get the same reaction. Try exactly 
the same as the "samba howto collection" for the script.

Jason

Burhan Khalid wrote:
> Matthew J. DiBattista wrote:
> 
>> What is the error message you are getting?
> 
> 
> Account does not exist
> 
>> Why do you want root access thru samba?
> 
> 
> I do *not* want root access through samba. I want to have samba create 
> machines accounts automatically for new clients that are joining the 
> domain.
> 
> According to all documentation that I have read (regardless of samba 
> version), there needs to be a "root" account in samba, which is the 
> equivalent of the Domain Administrator in Windows.  This is the only 
> account that is authorized to add new machines to the domain.
> 
> I created this account using smbpasswd -a root, and gave it a password.
> 
> For what its worth, if the machine account has been manually created in 
> Samba, then the initial logon with root works.  It just won't work if 
> the machine account does not exist.  If the machine account does not 
> exist, it will give "There was an error joining the domain mydomain, the 
> specified account could not be found".  However, if I ssh into the 
> server and create the machine account manually, then the same login 
> (root, with the smbpasswd password) works to add the machine.
> 
> Hopefully this clears things up a bit.
> 
> 
>> Why not just include yourself in the root and wheel group.
> 
> 
> My regular user account on the linux server is in wheel group.
> 
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