On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, ___cliff rayman___ wrote: > currently, in order to join a win XP machine to a samba PDC, you > have to use the root account (although you can use an smbpasswd > and not the linux password). is there any way to set up another > account to do this one particular task (one without uid=0)?.
No. It has to be done as a 'root' privilidged account from samba's perspective. ie: NT Administrator (which maps to root). As you noted, the smb password for root does not need to be the same as the system root password. > if we have users in remote places, i do not want to have to go over > to their work station just to log them on the the domain. alsoi don't > want to > give them a login and password that could compromise the system > the samba is running on (linux). > > i think the answer is no from some of the information i found > by googling, but i wanted to verify the answer here. You have your verification. Got a better suggestion? Send us your patches and we will look at them. > my only other option would be to issue a: > smbpasswd root > > make a temporary password, talk someone into joining > a domain on the phone, immediately change the password > back so it is secure. No different from NT/2K really. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba