[Samba] smbldap-useradd not creating machine accounts in correct fashion

[Ben Tisdall]

Hi,

I have OpenLDAP working here generally without problems for a variety of 
applications including the management of Samba. Functioning user 
accounts can be created via 'smbldap-useradd' with the proper samba 
attributes being added in LDAP, however...

Something odd is happening when I (or samba) tries to create a machine 
account with 'smbldap-useradd -w test1$' - an entry is created that 
looks like this:


dn: uid=test1$,ou=computers,dc=redcircle
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
cn: test1$
sn: test1$
uid: test1$
uidNumber: 1041
gidNumber: 515
homeDirectory: /dev/null
loginShell: /bin/false
description: Computer
gecos: Computer

Needless to the computer is not able to join the domain...

Whereas a working entry migrated from tdbsam looks like this:

dn: uid=sonny$,ou=computers,dc=redcircle
uid: sonny$
sambaSID: S-1-5-21-1595696850-3378076689-3030227139-3008
sambaPrimaryGroupSID: S-1-5-21-1595696850-3378076689-3030227139-1201
objectClass: sambaSamAccount
objectClass: account
displayName: SONNY$
sambaPwdMustChange: 2147483647
sambaAcctFlags: [W          ]
sambaPwdCanChange: 1175234556
sambaPwdLastSet: 1175234556

Feel as what's happening is so wrong that it must be some silliness on 
my part but for the life of me can't figure out what & any help would be 
much appreciated. BTW this is occurring with version 0.9.2a of the tools 
downloaded from SF & also the .deb for my Ubuntu server

-- 
Ben Tisdall