> I just found what I was looking for.  I needed
>
> domain admin group = someuser
>
> in my smb.conf.
>
> I was not able to register the computer accounts without it.  Hmm,
tutorials
> are always missing something.

I still can't! what priveleges does this user have on the box??

-mj

> Tom Veldhouse
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <daritner at attbi.com>
> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Samba as a PDC for WinXP clients
>
>
> > I found that samba account verification takes 3 account
> > profiles to be the same with windows 2k and above.
> > 1. The windows login
> > 2. The Samba user account
> > 3. The Unix account
> >
> > All 3 must be the same. With Win2k and up, windows
> > requires an encrypted password transaction, so to
> > accomodate this samba utilizes the unix/linux account
> > for that part.
> > > Does anybody have experience setting up Samba as a PDC for Windows XP
> > > clients?  I have followed
> > > http://www1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba/index.html but I am
> still
> > > stumped.  I am getting authentication errors, and it seems in part to
be
> > > because it can not read the /usr/local/private/smbpasswd file.  It
gets
> > > permission denied to open it.  I change the attributes to world
readable
> (I
> > > know -- uck!) and it sets the attributes back and then can not access
> it.
> > > Funny it should be so self defeating.
> > >
> > > Anyway, has anybody set up one of these beasts?
> > >
> > > Tom Veldhouse
> > > veldy at veldy.net
> > >
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