[Samba] NT4 to Samba 3 domain transfer

[Eric Feldhusen]

John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:54, Charles Zealey wrote:
>> I'm in the process of following John's excellent instructions for
>> transfering an NT4 domain to Samba 3.0.20 running on 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 on
>> an Intel box.
>>
>> Most things seem to work fine apart from the transfer of the machine
>> accounts.  These do not get moved because as retrieved from the NT
>> server the name is in upper case and adduser refuses to add names in
>> upper case, so I get the message 'unable to add posix account'.  I
>> presume that adding in lower case will work just as well but there are
>> rather a lot of them and I'd prefer the automated approach.
>>
>> Has anyone solved this before me?
> 
> Congratulations - you have been bitten by the paranoid shadow tools.
> Someone made the great decision that no *n*x account should be in upper case.
> 
> To get around this you will need to specify a script for the "add machine 
> script" that converts the name to lower case before passing it to the 
> "useradd" system tool.
> 
> - John T.

Not that it affects the above situation, but I thought the shadow tools 
in  Redhat Enterprise Server 4 doesn't allow "$" in any user name.  I 
end up adding the machine accounts to the unix side without a $, then 
editing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow by hand and adding the $, which when 
I then do smbpasswd -m machinename, it does work.   I think it's purely 
a problem with the Redhat Enterprise AS 4 servers, since Fedora Core 3, 
which RHAS4 is based on, allows it just fine, which works well since it 
allows the standard samba "add machine script = " to work.  Any 
suggestions or workarounds?

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