Re: [Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts

2003-01-09 Thread Buchan Milne
Message: 7 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:32:22 -0700 From: Dan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts Bruno Gimenes Pereti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: add user script = sudo /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c

[Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Peterson
I'm looking for a way to not have to worry about machine accounts on the server. My organization is looking to move thousands of machines and many locations to XP and, if possible, we'd like to avoid the headache of managing more system and samba accounts. Basically, I'd like a way to say I don't

Re: [Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts

2003-01-08 Thread Bruno Gimenes Pereti
Hi Dan, To allow everyone to join your domain you can use this in your smb.conf (got this idea from Art): add user script = sudo /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$ With this you will give rights to everyone to create users, I think it's a little

Re: [Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Peterson
Bruno Gimenes Pereti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: add user script = sudo /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$ Unfortunately, this is where the headache comes from. We rsync necessary password files (both system and samba) to many FreeBSD and Linux machines

Re: [Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts

2003-01-08 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:57, Dan Peterson wrote: I'm looking for a way to not have to worry about machine accounts on the server. My organization is looking to move thousands of machines and many locations to XP and, if possible, we'd like to avoid the headache of managing more system and

Re: [Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts

2003-01-08 Thread Herb Lewis
Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: It would also be nice if there was a way to alias all the system machine accounts into one system account (and, for that matter, the samba machine accounts into one samba account) and have samba do magic to keep what it needs seperated out somewhere I don't

Re: [Samba] Removing requirement for local machine accounts

2003-01-08 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:05, Herb Lewis wrote: Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: It would also be nice if there was a way to alias all the system machine accounts into one system account (and, for that matter, the samba machine accounts into one samba account) and have samba do magic to