On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > adil (users) and > > adil$ (machine) > > cannot work. > > Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but > never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for exactly > that reason you know - to make them different. i don't know - i probably should have said does not work instead of cannot work. I thought maybe the $ was there to identify machine accounts.
> > 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... > > Can you describe the failure please? I thought this was well known... The machine simply fails to join the domain. With a message about bad password or invalid machine account. brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
