On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Richard Sharpe wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > > > > Quoting Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but > > > never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for > > > exactly that reason you know - to make them different. > > > > Er, not exactly. If I remember correctly, the "$" in the passwd file just a > > Samba-specific nomenclature, correct? Plus CIFS has all sorts of "trailing > > characters" after NetBIOS names that are _not_ part of the unique NetBIOS name > > itself. > > No, not really. The \$ in the name of the trust account is an MS thing. > Samba requires a machine account be backed up on the server with an > account of that name. However, as far as I can see, we could remove that > restriction, as we could keep all the needed info in the secrets file or > another tdb.
OK, I withdraw the last sentence, since when we are operating as a PDC, we should use the same account mechanisms for trust accounts and ordinary user accounts. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com