Samba PDC does not work

[David Keen]

Vidol Loeung wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> Has anyone been able to make Samba PDC work on RHEL4? It seems to have
> problem. It wouldn't add the machine trust account with the 'add user
> script' directive.
> 
> And when I tried the command:
> # useradd -M 'testpc$'
> 
> It said "Invalid user name".
> 
> Any ideas would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Vidol
> 
The version of shadow-utils supplied with RHEL 4 has a bug which doesn't 
allow machine accounts to be added to a Samba domain.  At the time, 
upgrading this to shadow-utils-4.0.3-56 from the Fedora Core 3 
repository fixed this for me but I assume you can use the latest 
shadow-utils from FC4.

Cheers

David