[Samba] Samba as the Trusted Domain

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:29, Karel Kulhavý wrote:
> I have samba-3.0.2 with tdbsam (I don't remember why I moved on
> to tdbsam from smbpasswd but something in the past must have required
> it).
> 
> When trying to add trusting domain according to Samba HOWTO Collection,
> page "clxxxvii" (why the heck the pages have such strange Roman hashes
> instead of numbers?):
> 
> oberon root # smbpasswd -a -i KEVF_D1
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user KEVF_D1$.
> Failed to modify password entry for user KEVF_D1$
> 
> The instructions seem to work only for those who use smbpasswd. I suggest the
> documentation maintainer to add similar instructions into the documentation for
> tdbsam users.

Like all samba users, the domain trust account must exist in /etc/passwd
first.  The samba utilities are the same, no matter what the backend, be
it tdbsam, smbpasswd or ldap.

Andrew Bartlett

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