> 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 "$" > isn't a valid > character in usernames.
Try and trust.... You can even simply add the: saturn$::uid:gid:Computer Account::/bin/false ...line into the /etc/passwd (using files in nsswitch.conf) where uid you have to find a free UID manualy and for gid is good to have the group (for instance domaincomputers) created before > > 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? I have created a step-by-step config guide to PDC/BDC/Domain Member Server but I did not released it so it is on the Inernal Sun's network only. Because I expect the smba.org HOWTOs as primary source (it is well done job .. my credits to Jelmer R. Vernooij, John H. Terpstra and Gerald (Jerry) Carter). > > 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. > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> > RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> > Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> > Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > [email protected] > This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
