[Samba] posixAccount for Machines in LDAP?

[Paul Gienger]

kent at www.warehamportal.mec.edu wrote:

>Hello,
>I have a question about machine accounts.
>I using Samba 3.0, OpenLDAP 2.1.30 and Berkeley 4.2.52 on backend on
>RedHat machines.
>I also have 3 slave/BDC's and 1 master/PDC
>
>Right now all of my users and groups exist entirely in the LDAP directory.
>I have a few accounts in addition to the normal system accounts that are
>used for emergency access. All authention and group enumeration uses
>PAM_LDAP with NSS_LDAP.
>
>My question is that when I have a machine join the domain, in the LDAP
>directory an objectclass Account and sambaSAMAccount are created. I still
>need to create a machine account in /etc/passwd for this to happen. Is
>there anyone out there that is first creating a posixAccount with
>appropriate attributes in LDAP then using the Samba/Windows to generate
>the sambaSAMAccount object and attributes in LDAP also?
>  
>
You shouldn't need anything in /etc/passwd.  Perhaps by posting an 
smb.conf you could be pointed in the right direction.

>I was so happy to get all of the user/group stuff consolidated into the
>directory. Now I see that this is a possibility also but I haven't tried
>it.
>
>Kent N
>Wareham Public Schools
>
>  
>

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