I am trying to automate W7 joining to our Samba domain. It works fine through the Windows GUI from the W7 workstations. However, for a script one would have to store password used for domain access, and since that is the server's root password, I really don't want to hard code that into a file.
Is there a way to set (temporarily) a Samba server so that it will accept (admin/anything) as valid credentials for joining a domain, where "anything" is any string, not just the password? That is, something like this: server: set client_machine accept_only_password (THIS IS THE DEFAULT) client: (powershell) $myCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential \ admin,a_string_which_is_NOT_the_password Add-Computer SAMBA_domain -cred $myCred (FAILURE, wrong password) server: set client_machine accept_any_password client: (powershell) Add-Computer SAMBA_domain -cred $myCred (SUCCESS, wrong password, does not matter) server: set client_machine accept_only_password (CLOSE THE HOLE) That way the password would never be stored on the client. It should be safe enough since the security hole is only opened for a single machine, and then only for a limited time. Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba