Interesting. I remember have case sensitivity problems ( among others ) when using 'net rpc vampire' with 3.0.1-rc-something.We just migrated a small network from a Win2K PDC to Samba, using "net rpc vampire" into a tdbsam backend on a Samba 3.0.2a Linux box.
One of the users, let's call him Jon Harker, had the NT username "JHarker". When we ran "pdbedit -v jharker", we saw this:
Unix username: JHarker NT username: JHarker
Well, that looks wrong - the NT username can be mixed case for all I care, but shouldn't the Unix name be all lower case?
We changed jharker's /etc/passwd entry to "JHarker" and he was subsequently able to login. Since we didn't like that as a fix, we changed /etc/passwd back to all lower case and carefully edited the passdb.tdb in emacs (the binary editor of choice on Unix systems :-) to knock the mixed-case usernames into lower case, which also fixed the problem.
Both of these users already had accounts (all lower case) in /etc/passwd before we ran "net rpc vampire".
Other than this, the vampire process ran very smoothly.
-- Ed
Actually I had such a hard time that I decided to hold off until the process went a little smoother.
Yeah I also remember hand-editing /etc/passwd entries ( sometimes unsucessfully - I rooted some guy's account good ! ).
Have there been any bug fixes to the 'vampire' function since 3.0.1?
While I understand the cause of the case sensitivity problems, I think this still needs more attention - perhaps all names should be forced to lower case? Lets just say that my previous experience didn't exactly inspire confidence in the system I was setting up - hence we are still on an NT4 domain controller.
Anyway, since someone else had a 'very smooth' experience, maybe I was partly to blame. I'll give it another go when I get more time.
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