[Samba] Samba and LDAP: Trouble adding Win XP machines to the domain

[mikelOn]

Hi Edmundo,

I do agree with you. The first thing I wanted was to be able to add a
machine to the domain and once I have been able to do so, I have been
debugging to get to know why LAM was succeeding and the console scripts not. 
Yesterday, I found out that when the windows machine is added through the
console script, the uidNumber assigned is superior to 1000 (1001, 1002 and
so on...) but when added through the LAM it requested a number superior to
50000. I do not exactly know why, but if I create the machiness via the
console script (smbldap-useradd -w) the "username not found message appears"
and the machine is assigned a number superior to 1000. If I then change such
uidNumber to 5000x, the machine can then join the domain.

This morning I wanted to review the smbldap-useradd perl script to see if
there is any place (config file or so) where I can indicate the base number
I want for the machines.

¿Do I need to set that "base" uidNumber somewhere? ¿Why must it be set to
above than 50000?
¿Did you ever experience anything similar?

Thanks for your help.


Edmundo Valle Neto wrote:
> 
> Just to make it clear that its not normal a system really need to have 
> accounts created that way. I dont think is a good idea to call a 
> workaround used on a system that someone didnt got it working properly 
> (who knows why) as a solution, samba works very fine creating 
> workstation accounts automatically when joining the clients and can even 
> use accounts other than root trough privileges to join the client.
> 
> The list has several posts about that and the samba documentation shows 
> how to do that automatically and manually.
> 
> But anyway if the user that asked simply said that its fine for him that 
> way, and dropped the thread ...
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Edmundo Valle Neto
> 
> 
> 
> mikelOn escreveu:
>> Great!!!
>>
>> I have created a couple of machine accounts through the LAM utility and I
>> have eventually been able to join the domain.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>
>>
>> John Drescher-2 wrote:
>>   
>>> I have had the same problem with a similar setup for at least 3 years.
>>> My solution is to create the account for the windows workstation
>>> either via the smbldap-useradd and the linux useradd commands or a gui
>>> wizard that does this for me. I currently use ldap-account-manager
>>> http://lam.sourceforge.net/ for as well as user management. And then
>>> after the account is created the windows add to domain boxes work.
>>>
>>> John
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