On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:54, Charles Zealey wrote: > I'm in the process of following John's excellent instructions for > transfering an NT4 domain to Samba 3.0.20 running on 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 on > an Intel box. > > Most things seem to work fine apart from the transfer of the machine > accounts. These do not get moved because as retrieved from the NT > server the name is in upper case and adduser refuses to add names in > upper case, so I get the message 'unable to add posix account'. I > presume that adding in lower case will work just as well but there are > rather a lot of them and I'd prefer the automated approach. > > Has anyone solved this before me?
Congratulations - you have been bitten by the paranoid shadow tools. Someone made the great decision that no *n*x account should be in upper case. To get around this you will need to specify a script for the "add machine script" that converts the name to lower case before passing it to the "useradd" system tool. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, 2 Ed., ISBN: 0131882228 Samba-3 by Example, 2 Ed., ISBN: 0131882221X Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
