Bear with me; my specific question is specific to Solaris.

Various articles and HOWTOs I've found on using Samba as a Windows
primary domain controllers seem to call for creating a unix user
account for each client system, with the name <computername>$; so if
the client computer is named saturn, you're supposed to create a user
saturn$.  The articles show this being done through useradd -- on
Linux.

When I do this on Solaris, I get an error saying that the username
isn't valid, and reading man pages shows that the "$" isn't a valid
character in usernames.

So does anybody have an article/howto on using Samba *on Solaris* as a
domain controller?  Or should I just give up and go back to
workgroups?

Or...for a home environment, are workgroups actually the better
solution?  I do notice that XP home doesn't support domain logon, and
that might be an issue at some point; I think one of our laptops may
have that on it now in fact.

I'm interested in keeping my main data files on the fileserver, but
not that interested in people logging into random computers and
getting "their" home directories from the server; we have such
different software loads, etc., that it doesn't seem to make sense to
make us transparently portable between computers.
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