Re: Unclear statement in 2.2 PDC howto

* Volker Lendecke <[email protected]> [02/09/02, 10:59:57]:

> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:38:36AM +0200, Kai Blin wrote:

> > I found a slightly unclear statement in the PDC howto. Where should I send
> > a correction? Or is this done as a sgml file that's available in cvs
> > somwhere?
> 
> There's a lot of PDC howtos floating around. Which one do you mean exactly?

Right. I forgot about that. I meant Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html, like the one found
at http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html


The section "Creating Machine Trust Accounts and Joining Clients to the
Domain" reads:

    * "On-the-fly" creation. The Samba machine trust account is automatically
       created by Samba at the time the client is joined to the domain. (For
       security, this is the recommended method.) The corresponding Unix 
       account may be created automatically or manually. 

You should add a note that for Win2k, there _has_ to be a add user script.
This could also be mentioned in the section "On-the-Fly" Creation of Machine
Trust Accounts. A passage there reads:

 This method is not required, however; corresponding Unix accounts may also
be created manually.

This isn't true for my setup, which is a Samba 2.2.3a-6 (the -6 means it's a
debian package, I'm using woody aka Debian 3.0), and a Win2k professional
box, running sp2, iirc. It might be the specific configuration I used, but a
note that Win2k seems to like to create all the accounts would be nice.

HTH, Kai

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