On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:57, Dan Peterson wrote: > I'm looking for a way to not have to worry about machine accounts on the > server. My organization is looking to move thousands of machines and many > locations to XP and, if possible, we'd like to avoid the headache of > managing more system and samba accounts. Basically, I'd like a way to say "I > don't care who joins my domain, just do whatever is necessary to make them > think they have." I'd be willing to pay for such a feature (please contact > me via email). lucky for you this is already in place... as machines join a domain you can configure things so that the machine account is "auto-created" - see the howto collection.
You may want to commission an automatic machine account deletion when machines leave the domain... As far as i know that doesn't happen yet. > > It would also be nice if there was a way to alias all the system machine > accounts into one system account (and, for that matter, the samba machine > accounts into one samba account) and have samba do magic to keep what it > needs seperated out somewhere I don't have to worry about (Is this kind of > stuff in secrets.tdb?). the aliasing idea can't work because each machine must have its own password(it's updated automatically every x days) brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
