RE [Samba] smbldap-useradd -w won't create machine account

[Scott Lovenberg]

Hector Blanco wrote:
> Shouldn't it? I mean...Taking a look to the output produced by
> "smbldap-useradd -?" it says "-w is a windows machine account
> (otherwise, posix stuff only)" or something  similar... I don't have
> the exact output right now.
>
>  As far as I understand, it should add all the Samba stuff needed for Windows.
>
>  And I'm having the same (or similar) problems...
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-February/138442.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-February/138639.html
> http://lists-archives.org/samba/36168-samba-ldap-question.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-March/139288.html
>
> Well... at least I think they can be similar... Maybe I'm just really
> wrong and each time than someone is experiencing problems adding a
> Windows machine to an Ldap server, I keep saying "Me too, me too!!..."
> although they are actually different problems... I hope not...
>
>
>
>
> 2008/4/1, stephane.purnelle at corman.be <stephane.purnelle at corman.be>:
>   
>> Samba will add sambaSAMAccount when you add the workstation to the domain.
>>  sambaldaptools not add the samba shema for that.
>>
>>  -----------------------------------
>>  Stéphane PURNELLE                         stephane.purnelle at corman.be
>>  Service Informatique       Corman S.A.           Tel : 00 32 087/342467
>>
>>  samba-bounces+stephane.purnelle=corman.be at lists.samba.org a écrit sur
>>  01/04/2008 16:17:13 :
>>
>>  > I can't get smbldap-useradd to add the sambaSamAccount workstation
>>  > attributes. For example:
>>  >
>>  > smbldap-useradd -w 'test_machine$'
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > # test_machine$, People, desktop.hmdc.harvard.edu
>>  > dn: uid=test_machine$,ou=People,dc=desktop,dc=hmdc,dc=harvard,dc=edu
>>  > objectClass: top
>>  > objectClass: account
>>  > objectClass: posixAccount
>>  > cn: test_machine$
>>  > uid: test_machine$
>>  > uidNumber: 1010
>>  > gidNumber: 515
>>  > homeDirectory: /dev/null
>>  > loginShell: /bin/false
>>  > description: Computer
>>  > gecos: Computer
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Has anyone else experienced this? It thinks it's creating a machine
>>  > account, but it doesn't add sambaSamAccount, or sambaAcctFlags [W  ].
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > More info:
>>  > # rpm -qi smbldap-tools
>>  > Name        : smbldap-tools                Relocations: (not
>>  relocatable)
>>  > Version     : 0.9.4                             Vendor: Dag Apt
>>  > Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
>>  > Release     : 1.el5.rf                      Build Date: Sat 22 Sep 2007
>>  > 01:35:45 AM EDT
>>  > Install Date: Tue 25 Mar 2008 11:43:42 AM EDT      Build Host:
>>  > lisse.leuven.wieers.com
>>  > Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM:
>>  > smbldap-tools-0.9.4-1.el5.rf.src.rpm
>>  > Size        : 525573                           License: GPL
>>  > Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sat 22 Sep 2007 02:51:47 PM EDT, Key ID
>>  > a20e52146b8d79e6
>>  > Packager    : Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
>>  > URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/smbldap-tools/
>>  > Summary     : User and group administration tools for Samba-OpenLDAP
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Thanks,
>>  > c
>>  >
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ou=people?  Shouldn't that be in the Machines or Computers unit 
instead?  I think it might have to be a machine account, no?  Also, do 
you have a corresponding samba account to mate to the ldap entry?  My 
LDAP-fu is weak as of late, please disregard this if I'm completely off 
base.