New net breaks scripts
Ken Cross
kcross at nssolutions.com
Thu Aug 21 14:34:44 GMT 2003
Samba-folk:
There are 2 new "features" in the new net utility (SAMBA_3_0) that breaks
scripts pretty badly.
The first is prompting for a password when -P is specified, but the machine
account doesn't exist. Previously, it would exit nicely with an error
status. Now it prompts for a password. For example:
net ads leave -P
Previously this would work as desired -- if the machine account existed, it
would remove it; if not, it would continue. Now it hangs waiting for input,
which is a Bad Thing in a script.
The second is "realm must be set in in smb.conf for ADS join to succeed". I
try to use "net -s /dev/null" in my scripts whenever possible (it keeps
things in a known state), and then add everything on the command line. Can
we add a command-line option for realm?
Ken
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Ken Cross
Network Storage Solutions
Phone 865.675.4070 ext 31
kcross at nssolutions.com
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