[Samba] Why need to add a machine account to /etc/passwd first with Samba+LDAP

[Paul Gienger]

> Is this the way Samba works? I mean, samba has to make sure a machine 
> account exist in the /etc/passwd file of Samba PDC, doesn't it?

Samba needs to have a valid posix user on your system for the computer 
account.  Where you store that, LDAP, files, NIS is almost completely 
irrelevant.

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