[Samba] disable automatic creation of computer accounts

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 14:09 +0200, Angel Bosch Mora via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to disable computer creation when joining AD.
> 
> We have some script in our environment that create computer accounts,
> add them to DNS and perform some other tasks.
> So we need that joining samba domain FAILS if computer account is not
> found, even if credentials are correct, and SUCCES if computer
> account is already created (samba-tool computer create mymachine01)
> 
> How can I achieve that behaviour?

Alter your script so that it does what it does now, plus joins the
machine and run it on the machine to be joined. Or you could script
around 'net ads join' and only attempt the join if the computer already
exists in AD.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> abosch
> 
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Why do people still use disclaimers, they are totally unenforceable (if
they need enforcing) especially if the recipient cannot understand
them.

Rowland