Since samba 2.2.8 seems to be on the way i thought i might raise this issue before release.
I've seen a few users get confused by the fact that their machine name and their user name cannot be very similar adil (users) and adil$ (machine) cannot work. I think it's not good practice to have machine names and usernames be the same but i also don't think samba should fail cryptically in that situation... The usernames are different - why does this fail? I'm guessing that the $ gets stripped off somewhere but why? At minimum we should provide an explicit prohibion in the docs (doc patch for SAMBA2_2 follows) diff -u -r1.1.2.15 Samba-PDC-HOWTO.sgml --- docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.sgml 28 Nov 2001 22:03:22 -0000 1.1.2.15 +++ docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.sgml 6 Feb 2003 14:02:08 -0000 @@ -288,6 +288,11 @@ account, and thus has no shared secret with the domain controller. </para> +<para>Note: Machine accounts must not have the same base names as user +accounts. eg. The machine account "sambauser1$" is not allowed when +there is a regular user "sambauser1". +</para> + <para>A Windows PDC stores each machine trust account in the Windows Registry. A Samba PDC, however, stores each machine trust account in two parts, as follows: -- Bradley W. Langhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>