John H Terpstra wrote:
On Friday 15 April 2005 13:15, Victor Medina wrote:
Also, have you followed the Samba documentation? The best document for comparing your configuration with the official recommendations is the book "Samba-3 by Exampe" available from Amazon.Com or by downloading from:Hi all!!
I am using Samba 3 (3.0.4) and SuSE SLES 9. I am having troubles trying
to create new users and machines accounts on the newly created domain.
Could somebody answer me why i am receiving this error messages?
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf
This book is currently being updated. All my test work is done with SLES 9.
linuxserv:~ # smbpasswd -m -a testmachine
Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user testmachine$.
Failed to modify password entry for user testmachine$
linuxserv:~ # smbpasswd -a testmachine
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
tdb_update_sam: Failing to store a SAM_ACCOUNT for [testmachine] without
a primary group RID
Failed to add entry for user testmachine.
Failed to modify password entry for user testmachine
You might need to do:
linuxserv:~ # useradd -M testmachine$
to create the machine account in the Unix password database (usu. /etc/passwd) before attempting to add it to the Samba password database. Note that the -M option prevents the creation of a home directory and other default files, and the $ is required for machine accounts. Note also when adding machine accounts to Samba, the $ is automatically appended so you should NOT include it. Likewise for users, you may need to do:
linuxserv:~ # useradd someuser
Now that being said, it's also possible to use LDAP for all of your authentication, which would eliminate the need for adding machine and user accounts to the Unix password database. Heck, it would elminate the need FOR a unix password database. Don't ask me how (as I've never done it), but a fellow by the name of John H. Terpstra has written an excellent book on the subject, see above. ;-)
~Jonathan Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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