[K12OSN] samba admin account problem

[Doug Simpson]

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...
>  
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Ronald R. McDaniel
> Conecuh County Schools
> (251) 578-7073 x26
> (251) 230-0658 cell
> rmcdaniel at indata.us
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       -------- 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>
> 
>       "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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