[Samba] Re: can mount share, cannot join domain

[Igor Belyi]

Adrian Hicks wrote:
> Firstly, the man page says to use "add machine script"... AND
> 
> Can someone tell me why my thinking is wrong.  Isn't %u the username of the 
> current service, if any, as described in the smb.conf man page?
> 
> If so, why do the doc's (including the man page) put %u in the command for 
> adding a machine account to the UNIX side?
> 
> Doesn't the machine account need the NetBIOS name of the client, and isn't 
> this represented in Samba by %m?
> 
> Wouldn't the command for adding a machine be something more like (3.0.x):
> 
> 
> add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /dev/null -g 100  \ 
> -s /bin/false %m
> 
> 
> Can't test right now as our only 2000 machine is busy.  Can anyone else 
> confirm?
> 
> 
> Adrian Hicks

No, NetBIOS name is just a name of the machine, but machine trust 
account should have a special name - name of the machine terminated with 
'$'. This special name is what get substituted in place of %u.

Hope it helps,
Igor