Friday, July 25, 2003, 5:30:00 PM, Felipe wrote: >> >> So, what is exactly requirement for Domain admins?????
> To be able to join a Windows XP/2000 computer to a Samba Domain, during > the process you must supply a Samba user that is mapped to UID=0 on your > Samba server. > The easiest way is to create an "Administrator" user in Samba and assign > it a UID of 0. Then, when joining your Windows machine to the domain, > use that "Administrator" user. Tks felipe, But why it needs to be root (or uid=0), is it because it needs to open /etc/samba/smbpasswd? What if i'm using ldap, can I use ordinary user and bind as ldapmanager? This is required for me because I will use ldap backend but I don't want to create root account in ldap which if it's compromised, it can do anything to *all* workstation. Tks again. --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
