[Samba] Re: 3.0 PDC Cannot find root user

[Jason Zhang]

Sorry, I meant "DOESN'T" work well. :)

Jason Zhang wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
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>> 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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