thanks for the hint! I did the following: In smbpasswd the machine account had flags WU. I removed the U flag and now it's no longer listed in the mmc. I'm monitoring the problem with the shares and will report later on...
cheers, Oliver -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: [Samba] machine account with strange behaviour (11-Feb-2004 11:14) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Oliver, > My opinion is that try delleting the machine name using the 'control center' > > and delete the machine account in the passwd file. Then add the machine > name > again using "control center, edit & creat users ", then In console add the > machine using: # smbpasswd -a -m <machinename>. Note i managed to do this > on > SuSE 8.1. Please send me an email if u're thru > Rgds, > Segie. > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [Samba] machine account with strange behaviour > Date: 11 Feb 2004 08:59:53 UT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm running samba-3.0.1-2 on a redhat machine. it acts as a pdc > for our domain. clients are w2k machines. > > when administering the w2k boxes via the mmc one of the machine > accounts shows up in the domain users list. it is shown together > with it's ending "$". I removed the machine from the domain and > added it back however the effect stays. > > Additionally it is *sometimes* not possible to map drives to shares > on that machine. Users receive a message that "no error message was > found" or sometimes that an "unknown internal windows 2000 error" has > occured. > > The machine account was created manually just the same way all the > others were made. It's line in /etc/passwd is completely unsuspicous. > > Any help would be appreciated! > > best regards, Oliver > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
