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

[Steve Zeng]

Paul,

It is stored under ou=Computers in LDAP.

> 
>> 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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Steve Zeng
Systems Administrator
Mainframe Entertainment Inc
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