[Samba] sAMAccountName is Computer name

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Nov 17 15:00:02 UTC 2021


On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 15:34 +0100, Ivan Jurišić via samba wrote:
> 
>   I direct connect to Samba AD DC server and run smbstatus :
> 
> Samba version 4.13.13-Debian
> PID     Username     Group        Machine                            
>     
>     Protocol Version  Encryption           Signing
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 297104  EXAMPLE\pc-ijurisic$ EXAMPLE\domain computers 192.168.22.188 
> (ipv4:192.168.22.188:57676) SMB3_11           -                    
> AES-128-CMAC
> 
> I think output smstatus need to be:
> Username: EXAMPLE\ijurisic

NO

> Group: EXAMPLE\domain users

NO

> Machine: EXAMPLE\pc-ijurisic

Possibly, but I bet 192.168.22.188 is the ipaddress for pc-ijurisic

> 
> But I have:
> 
> Username: EXAMPLE\pc-ijurisic$
> Group: EXAMPLE\domain

No, that is EXAMPLE\domain computers

> Machine: computers

and that is 192.168.22.188 (ipv4:192.168.22.188:57676)

Remember what I said about a computer being a user ?
The output shows that the 'user' EXAMPLE\pc-ijurisic$ (aka A COMPUTER)
is connected.
> 
> If I run smbstatus -u EXAMPLE\ijurisic or smbstatus -u ijurisic got 
> blank list on my server.

Is EXAMPLE\ijurisic actually connected to a share ?

> 
> Very strange.

Not really, everything seems to be working as it should.

Rowland





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