Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's arealworld NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-07 Thread Rafal Szczesniak
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:15:52PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bryan J. Smith wrote: No, not really. The \$ in the name of the trust account is an MS thing. Samba requires a machine account be backed up on the server with

machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
Since samba 2.2.8 seems to be on the way i thought i might raise this issue before release. I've seen a few users get confused by the fact that their machine name and their user name cannot be very similar adil (users) and adil$ (machine) cannot work. I think it's not good practice to have

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread David Bear
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:04:14AM -0500, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: Since samba 2.2.8 seems to be on the way i thought i might raise this issue before release. I've seen a few users get confused by the fact that their machine name and their user name cannot be very similar adil (users)

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 01:04, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: Since samba 2.2.8 seems to be on the way i thought i might raise this issue before release. I've seen a few users get confused by the fact that their machine name and their user name cannot be very similar adil (users) and adil$

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Quoting Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for exactly that reason you know - to make them different. Er, not exactly. If I remember correctly, the $ in the

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:54, Bryan J. Smith wrote: Quoting Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for exactly that reason you know - to make them different.

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Quoting Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: These are different. The $ termination is a NT suffix, that NT adds to it's machine accounts. The netbios issues are separate. (And as any user may add a netbios name to the network, Samba really isn't in a position to prevent this from

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote: adil (users) and adil$ (machine) cannot work. Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for exactly that reason you know - to make them different.

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's arealworld NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bryan J. Smith wrote: Quoting Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for exactly that reason you know - to make them different. Er, not

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:28, Richard Sharpe wrote: When a workstation boots, it registers its workstation name as a NetBIOS name. Indeed, it registers several types of NetBIOS names, including a 00 name, a 03 name and, if you have enabled sharing, a 20 name. When a user tries to log on,

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote: adil (users) and adil$ (machine) cannot work. Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:47:47PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote: adil (users) and adil$ (machine) cannot work. Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times,

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's arealworld NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Quoting Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, not really. The \$ in the name of the trust account is an MS thing. Samba requires a machine account be backed up on the server with an account of that name. However, as far as I can see, we could remove that restriction, as we could keep all the

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:47, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote: adil (users) and adil$ (machine) cannot work. Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but never

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's arealworld NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bryan J. Smith wrote: Quoting Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for exactly that reason

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems...

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:47:47PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote: adil (users) and adil$ (machine) cannot work. Why can't