On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:47:47PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > [...] > > > > > > 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. > > > > Under what circumstances can't/doesn't this work? > > > > Does it not work only in the case that adil and adil$ both exist in the > > passwd database of the Samba server? > > > > If that is the case, then the code that allows the machine to log onto the > > trust account is probably checking for the 'adil' account and refusing to > > let it happen. > > No such code exists.
Hmmm, that is interesting. Maybe I need to try this myself to see what the issues are. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
