[Samba] Autogenerating of operatingSystem and operatingSystemVersion attributes in AD

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Rashid,

> When Samba joins to AD, net creates 'Computer' object in 
> target AD.  Object 'Computer' has attributes operatingSystem
> and operatingSystemVersion,  which automatically setup
> in properly value, when native Windows join to AD.
> I offer a patch to utils/net_ads.c to do similar way - 
> set up operatingSystem to "Samba" and operatingSystemVersion
> to Samba version, when Samba joins AD

The problem with this patch and the reason we don't set
these attributes any more is that you cannot be guaranteed
to have permission unless you are a domain admin.
If you can find a way to do this via RPC, that would
probably be a better solution.




cheers,jerry
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