<div>If I am not running LDAP is this the way to go about the "admin" account?</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> Ronald R. McDaniel Conecuh County Schools (251) 578-7073 x26 (251) 230-0658 cell <A href="mailto:rmcdaniel@indata.us">rmcdaniel@indata.us</A> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [K12OSN] samba admin account problem (from David T) From: "David Trask" <dtrask@vcsvikings.org> Date: Thu, August 04, 2005 10:01 pm To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn@redhat.com> "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn@redhat.com> on Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 6:55 PM +0000 wrote: >I know that this is going to seem quite simple, but for some reason this >stumps me over and over. When I am setting up samba as a PDC, I use the >command "smbpasswd -a root" to use the root account as the account to >allow windoze machines to join the domain. I am using the create machine >account script in smb.conf to auto add the machine account to samba. >When I try the first one, I get the message that the username or password >is invalid. Can someone tell me what I am missing? > > >Thanks so much, Two things that may have gotten you...one is...did you run smbldap-populate –a root the second is....and the biggest gotcha is commenting out #root=administrator admin in the /etc/samba/smbusers file Read below for more info....this file can be found as part of the smbldap-installer script (which you should be using if you want to make life a lot easier)....or at http://web.vcs.u52.k12.me.us/linux/smbldap/ If using K12LTSP 4.4 beta...get the latest smbldap-installer (version 2) at Matt's site http://majen.net/smbldap/ This is cut from my Samba/LDAP how-to.... *snip* Step 12: Populating the database Now we need to populate the data (ldif). This is easy to do....simply type smbldap-populate Note: In later versions of smbldap-tools the preferred method is to run smbldap-populate –a root Note: if you do this…skip Step 13 and proceed to Step 13a this will run a script that will populate the database with a built-in directory structure. It should just run....any errors and something is amiss.....check your stuff from previous steps. Step 13: Setting the Administrator password... We also need to set a password and make a tweak for a 'special" account... Administrator This account was created when you ran smbldap-populate. It is vital as it is the account that will be used to join Windows machines to the Samba Domain. It must have a uid of '0". One very important thing we need to do is comment out a line in the /etc/samba/smbusers file. To do this let's go to the directory... cd /etc/samba and then edit the file gedit smbusers find the line that shows .... root=administrator admin and comment it out by adding the # symbol #root=administrator admin then save and exit. Now let's set the password. To set the password for the Administrator account type... smbpasswd -a Administrator and enter a password of your choosing. Don't forget it as you'll need it when you start adding Windows machines to your domain. Step 13a: Setting the Administrator (root) password... To set the password for the root account type... smbpasswd -a root and enter a password of your choosing. Don't forget it as you'll need it when you start adding Windows machines to your domain. Note: When you add machines to the Windows domain (from the Windows workstation) you will use 'root" as the user along with the password you set here *snip* David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Coordinator Vassalboro Community School dtrask@vcsvikings.org (207)923-3100 _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> </BLOCKQUOTE>