[Samba] Re: Joining a samba domain on WinXP without a root login?

[Michael Lueck]

At least with Samba 3 you can specify an account or group allowed to be root within Samba's mind. For example...

[global]
########## NT Domain Related ##########
    admin users = @domadmin

Sets the Linux domadmin group as allowed to join boxes to the domain.

Do not set root as an invalid user as it has bad resulting behavior. Even though you would never log in at a Windows client with a domain account of root... still don't set it as an invalid user.

Of course working with current Samba code is highly suggested.

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

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