On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:26:35AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: >I don't think it matters too much, as long as you add that same user to both >passwd and smbpasswd. I could be wrong but I think that user might need to be able to write to the dir where the MACHINE.SID is stored (unless samba just writes it as root) > >Tom Veldhouse > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mike Jentges" <mike at jentges.net> >To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:13 PM >Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Samba as a PDC for WinXP clients > > >> >> >> > 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 >> > > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> > Minnesota >> > > > http://www.mn-linux.org >> > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> > Minnesota >> > > http://www.mn-linux.org >> > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> Minnesota >> > http://www.mn-linux.org >> > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "If you love something set it free, if it doesn't come back to you hunt it down and set it on fire" -- George Carlin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020725/3957e4a8/attachment.pgp