On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:00 +0100, David Landgren wrote: > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:06:10 -0600, J Raynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would like to use "security = domain" for a samba server, but the only > > way I've found to do that is to issue the command "net rpc join -U > > admin%password" where "admin" is a Windows user that has the authority > > to create machine accounts. I don't have that authority, and I don't > > think I can get it. > > Is there another way to do this? For instance, if the Windows admins > > add the machine account for me, can I issue a different command to join > > the domain? What command? > > Ask the admins to insert if for you into the domain. There's a reason > it's done this way, so that the admins have a nominal idea of what > machines are on their network, and thus, potentially responsible for.
If you do a 'net rpc join', it should first try to take up this account (added from the server side) and change the preset password (the machine name) to something random. Or get the admin to put their password into the the 'net rpc join'. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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