No, not in my experience. Since Samba (in "domain" mode) will forward all authentication requests to the PDC of the domain, it just has to join the domain (which causes the PDC to create a machine account for the Samba server automagically).
>>> Beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/09/03 20:20 PM >>> At 01:48 PM 1/9/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Try something like this... ... > ># useradd machine% --> with the dollar sign ># smbpasswd -a -m machine Is this command required? its for samba acting as PDC only. from man page : -m This option tells smbpasswd that the account being changed is a MACHINE account. Currently this is used when Samba is being used as an NT Primary Domain Controller. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba