Hi, Thanks So it does not automatically add the machine name into unix account and also add the machine name as smbpasswd.. ;<( is it possible to make it automatically add machine name to both unix account and smbpasswd?
Regards Winanjaya ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 5:59 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Newbie - samba 3 as PDC Winanjaya, Please see here regarding domain control and membership... http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/domain-member.htm l ...but from a quick glance your smb.conf file seems OK. so then you need to add a machine account. first as a unix account... useradd -c "machine account" -d /dev/null -s /sbin/nologin netbiosname$ (netbiosname$ being the hostname of the windows client with a dollar appended) then as a samba account... smbpasswd -a -m netbiosname (note the dollar is not required here) then add the client to the domain. when asked for an account with permissions to do so use the root account you set up when first configuring samba as a domain controller. apologies if you've done this already and are still experiencing problems, but you weren't particularly verbose in your post so I'm not not sure what stage you're at. if possible then describe what you've actually tried and what errors you're getting. ---- - Message sent via Madasafish Webmail - http://www.madasafish.com/ Up to 8Mb Broadband now from just £11.99 a month -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba *********************** Your mail has been scanned by MSS. *********************** *********************** Our outgoing mail has been scanned by MSS. *********************** -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
