[Samba] Invalid user name when adding machine to domain

Matt Easton matthew at sublunar.com
Sun Jul 10 06:22:04 GMT 2005


On Jul 5, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Richmond Dyes wrote:

> I am getting an error when trying to add a machine to my domain.  I 
> look at the log for that machine and  this is what I get
>
>

<SNIP>

> useradd: invalid user name 'paulgrav$'
> [2005/07/02 20:54:53, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(571)
>

Perhaps the computer account was not created on the server.

In smb.conf, the "add machine script" directive is not set, or is 
failing because the script is broken.
Or, if you are not using this directive, you did not first manually 
create a machine account at the server



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