[Samba] Clarification of 'administrator' config w/ldap

Adam Williams awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us
Wed Apr 22 15:38:58 GMT 2009


no.  the correct way to join a computer to the machine account is to 
either use the username root when you type in the domain on computer 
name properties, or a user who is in the ntadmins group that has 
SEMachineAccountPrivilege

jeff sacksteder wrote:
>> run smbpasswd -a root and put in root's password.
>>     
>
> So on a client machine, I can now authenticate with 'root' and the
> appropriate passwd, but shouldn't the smbusers mapping cause
> administrator to work the same way?
>   


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