[K12OSN] samba admin account problem
Doug Simpson
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Fri Aug 5 15:07:52 UTC 2005
If you have run smbpasswd -a root it should work. But you have to give it
the same password as the regular root password on the server.
I use it this way with no problems at all.
Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
> Bingo.. That is exactly what I am having trouble doing. I am trying to
> use root as the "admin" account. Should I be using a different user? I
> do appreciate your help on this...
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> Ronald R. McDaniel
> Conecuh County Schools
> (251) 578-7073 x26
> (251) 230-0658 cell
> rmcdaniel at indata.us
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] samba admin account problem
> From: "David Trask" <dtrask at vcsvikings.org>
> Date: Thu, August 04, 2005 10:07 pm
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com>
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> "Support list for opensource software in schools."
> <k12osn at 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,
>
> Whoops! Suddenly I realized that you're not using
> Samba/LDAP, but plain
> 'ol Samba...sorry....disregard my other post. :-( Been so
> long since I
> did plain 'ol Samba...I've forgotten how. One thing I
> remember is that
> unless the pendulum has swung back the other way...you need
> to use the
> "Administrator" account to join machines to the domain. It
> used to be
> root...then it became Administrator....we put it back to
> "root" in
> smbldap, but it may still be Administrator in regular Samba.
>
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207)923-3100
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