[Samba] migrating NT4 PDC net rpc vampire errors with capital letters

[John H Terpstra]

Ryan Davis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have searched for days on Google and can't find a clear answer to my
> question.  I have a  NT4 PDC which I am migrating to Samba 3 (Version
> 3.4.2-47.fc12) on FC12 with kernel(2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686).  I am using
> tdbsam as my passdb backend.
>
> I setup Samba as a BDC and then joined to NT4 Domain succesfully.  When I go
> to vampire the accounts I get lots of errors and some user accounts get
> transfered over.  It turns that all the user accounts that transfer are
> those that don't have a capital letter in their username on the NT4 domain
> server.  Most do and don't get transfered.  There seems to be errors with my
> groups and Computer accounts.  I was able in the past to vampire all the
> accounts (even capital letters) so any ideas would be great.
>   

Some Linux systems will not allow creation of user or group accounts
that have uppercase characters or spaces in them.  OpenSUSE 11.2 does
not have this limitation.  Perhaps you can ask on the FedoraProject list
to find how to disable the restriction against uppercase characters in
user and group names.  While it is an admirable intention of some Linux
distros to stop users from creating stupid account names, when migrating
from MS Windows this is a real handicap.

- John T.

> Thanks in advance.
>
> Here is a type of error I get:
>
> Creating account: Ryan
> useradd: invalid user name 'Ryan'
> fetch_account: Running the command `/usr/sbin/useradd -m 'Ryan'' gave 3
> Could not create posix account info for 'Ryan'
>
> I get this error for groups:
>
> Creating unix group: 'SophosDomainPowerUser'
> groupadd: 'SophosDomainPowerUser' is not a valid group name
> smb_create_group: Running the command `/usr/sbin/groupadd
> 'SophosDomainPowerUser'' gave 3
>
> and for Computer names:
> Creating account: LIMS1$
> useradd: invalid user name 'LIMS1$'
> fetch_account: Running the command `/usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d
> /dev/null 'LIMS1$'' gave 3
>
>
> Here is my smb.conf
>
> [global]
>      workgroup = GENOME1
>      netbios name = HERCULES
>      passdb backend = tdbsam
>      domain master = No
>      domain logons = Yes
>      os level = 40
>      add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd "%u" -n -g users
>      delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel "%u"
>      add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd "%g"
>      delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel "%g"
>      add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -n -c "Workstation (%u)" -M -d
> /nohome -s /bin/false "%u"
> #     username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>      logon path =
>      logon home =
> #     wins support = yes
>
> [files]
>         comment = SAMBA File Server
>         path = /files
>         read only = No
>