On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:01:54PM +0200, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > having several MS Windows clients at our school, I never had to add machine > accounts on the server. Instead I joined the domain "SKOLELINUX" from the > clients using the samba-root-account. My experience is limited to WinNT and > Win2k, however. > Now there have been descriptions on how to create machine accounts that tell > the reader to use webmin. Is this for W98 then? Or other versions? Or is it > rather obsolete?
To cut the list short, the proper way is: - install main-server (tjener), and give a password for the root unix account during installation. This will also be the root webmin passord un less you reconfigure webmin (changing unix root account password also changes the webmin root account password, since it's the same user). Initially the password for ldap admin will be the same as well, but changing the ldap admin password is doable, and need not be the same as the unix root account. - Login in as root on the main-server and set the samba root acount using smbpasswd root This password _should_not_ be the same as the unix root account/ldap admin password. - Then add the samba workstation to the domain by login in as a local administrator on the windows machine (or linux if you choose), and join the domain, using the username root, and the password is the samba root account password. Please, and this is important: - if this dont work, then file a bug on http://bugs.skolelinux.no - if some other methode works, it's a bug, and please file this also at http://bugs.skolelinux.no > This question is mainly for consistent documentation, I'd never use webmin to > add machine accounts. You should not. There was talk about some sort of doing this some time ago, but it was never implemented nor tested. -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/
