On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:40 -0700, Jim Hogan wrote: > I see list discussions on this subject from a few years back but they > were very brief and, it seems, inconclusive. > > I would be interested in hearing from anybody who has discovered the > "trick" to getting an EMC Celerra to join their Samba 3.x domain. > > I have an old NetApp Filer happily joined. I simply created an account > with "smbldap-useradd -w filername" and when I then configured the Filer > for CIFS it was immediately accessible and I could see "SambaNTPassword" > and related bits in its record (LDAP backend using Fedora Directory > Services)". > > I did the same for the EMC, "smbldap-useradd -w emcname". Then, when I > create the EMC's CIFS server (with name, domain, NT4/netbios type, WINS > spec) it does appear in Domain browse list very quickly, but no > resources are available. The dump of the EMC's CIFS config (included > below) shows all of the correct Netbios stuff. > > In LDAP, the SambaNTPassword attribute (and a few others created in > client records when a successful join is completed) are missing. > > EMC documentation is to the effect "Windows NT servers are automatically > joined to a domain when created". This does not square with other joins > where a Samba root user/password are required. EMC does have a "Join" > option for its "server_cifs" command (that takes a password), but this > is supposedly only for Win2000+ . I tried it anyway. It times out.
The password-based join is what I would prefer to have people use, but 'smbpasswd -a -m' should match NT4 is this respect (setting a password matching the machine name). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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