[Samba] Domain logins not working

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:56:07PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:32:18PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Samba wants the machines to have Unix accounts too!  I don't recall 
>>> this  behaviour previously, and I note my old server didn't have them 
>>> -      
>>
>> Samba has *always* behaved this way.
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>
>>   
> Why? I can understand user accounts for the various mappings, but what  
> is the purpose of having Unix machine accounts? Since my old server  
> didn't have them (not listed in the /etc/passwd file), it doesn't appear  
> that they are necessary for Samba to operate.

They are needed for machine accounts, a machine account is
a principal just like a user account.

Jeremy.