[Samba] Windows machines won't join Samba Domain...
Matthew Easton
v-vi at trugschluss.org
Wed Feb 8 04:31:28 GMT 2006
On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Paul Matthews wrote:
> Although i'm sure after googleing for a few days now you've already
> found
> out that you have to make a machine account ending in '$' for any
> machine
> your going to add to your domain and then run the command smbpasswd -m
> machinename$
Is it still case that one must map the administrator account in
/etc/smaba/smbusers?
////////basic /etc/samba/smbusers file//////////
# Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
root = administrator admin
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
////////////////////////////////////////////////
If you are trying to join the domain and SAMBA isn't mapping root to
administrator, you can maybe have the error you are seeing.
Actually another issue would be if you are trying to log into the
domain with a mapped account over wireless. WinXP (and maybe earlier
windows) doesn't init the wireless network until after login -- not a
problem if the computer has already joined the domain and the user is
not mapped to a unix account. But IS a problem with mapped accounts
because XP doesn't know user "administrator"=unix-user-"root" and
can't refer to its cached logins.
Hope that was clear.
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