On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:45, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > After a lot of searching and some frustration, I finally got a Windows > 2000 Pro. client joining my test Samba 3.0.2a domain. My only question > is with the automatic user addition. After the client joined the domain, > the machinename$ was added to /etc/passwd. Is this necessary?
It is. All samba users must (by some means) be unix users. > I am > looking into migrating an 800+ client network to samba, which will > probably mean a very large /etc/passwd file. :) And no doubt much larger, by the time you add each user. > I hate to sound stupid, but is this the only way to get a Win2k box to > join a Samba domain? If a large /etc/passwd file scares you, then move to LDAP. andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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