On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:58:13PM -0500, Mike Jentges wrote: >I'm still looking for any handy dandy tips on this one, but with 2k, not XP. >I managed to get lucky once, only once. I've followed the same doc, right at >the boxes, line by line. Seems all I get out of it is that I'm a computer >account. I got desparate and tried as root and that gives me 'bad username >or password'. All that fancy point and click crap can't even narrow it down >more than that. > >I have to think there's an easier way? Well, webmin offers some handy tools for doing what we used to do by hand here to create samba users and machine accounts: ## To add a new user to the "Domain" follow this order. ## 1. useradd -g <groupname> -d /path/to/homes//<username> -s /bin/false <username> ## ## ** This will add a machine account needed to establish a "trust" with a w2k/ ## ** or NT workstation. The $ is needed after the machine name. ## 2. useradd -g <groupname> -d /dev/null -s /bin/false <machinename>$ ## ## ** Now add the user and machine accounts to samba ## 3. smbpasswd -a -e <username> ## 4. smbpasswd -a -m <machinename>$ Now when I need to add a users i do it from webmin and it makes the updates to the "Samba Users" as well, then I go to the "servers" -> "Samba Machine Maintainer" type in the hostname and I'm done (On the samba end) Then go to the PC right-click "My Computer" go into properties, hunt around for "Network Identification" and it to the domain. Piece of cake. Relevant lines from our smb.conf: in [global] workgroup = SISTINA netbios name = SAMBA2 domain admin group = blutgens logon script = %u.bat logon home = \\%N\%U logon drive = g: domain logons = Yes os level = 64 preferred master = True domain master = True wins support = True It's all gravy. Though I admit I didn't set this up, that was Tom Hudak who used to be unfortunate enough to work for me :-) Poor bastard. Hope this helps. -- 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/b4df136e/attachment.pgp