On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Daniel Kasak wrote:???
John H Terpstra wrote:
Right. I read that HOWTO ( honest, a few times ), but I missed that script.The problem you refer to is not a 'net rpc vampire' issue. This is specifically an issue pertaining to the host operating system that Samba is running on.
In the Samba-HOWTO-Collection chapter on Migration I have provided a shell script that can be used to get around this OS problem. The script is in Example 12.1, called "smbgrpadd.sh". You can easily craft a similar script to handle addition of user accounts.
Please let me know if this is not an acceptable solution for you.
- John T.
When I next attempt the migration, I'll give it a go.
What are the chances of getting something like this merged in with the
vampire process?
Why might we want to impose the restriction needed because of a brain-dead OS implementation on ALL OS platforms?
- John T.
To make the product easier to use maybe?
It's all very well to say "Oh yeah. That doesn't work. You'll have to manually add that, and modify this script here to fit that, and wave a dead chicken over this thing here unless that over there has already done this, and ignore that error ... that's supposed to happen" and claim it's all Microsoft's fault in the process. Maybe it is. But here you have an end user ( and I'm relatively motivated compared to most end users, even though I probably fall short of a Samba developer ) saying that they want a little more integration of tools to make the process easier. Merely stating that this problem is Microsoft's fault does nothing to address the issue that the vampire command in it's default configuration doesn't work in many situations.
What I'm suggesting is NOT that we all plague our OSs with Microsoft's mistakes to become compatible, but that we merely integrate the loose collection of scripts and how-tos and other assorted good advice into a coherent package that you can use to achieve the outcome that end users are after: to migrate from NT to Samba - not to research and debate the finer details of the differences between Microsoft's and Linux's implementation of feature X.
I'm also not clear on what restrictions would be imposed by giving the user an option to run a script that converts NT user names into Linux-friendly user names.
Surely the amount of time it takes to add such scripts to the how-to collection and answer posts such as mine would be better spent in integrating the scripts into the actual product?
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