I don't think it matters too much, as long as you add that same user to both
passwd and smbpasswd.

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
> > > >
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