On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Markus Schabel wrote: > John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > > > >>Hi ! > >> > >>Is there the need for a root account when using samba-3.0+ldap ? > >>I'm asking this because I cannot add XP workstations to the domain (I > >>made the registry changes), I get an "access denied". Under NT, there's > >>no problem, it does not even ask for a login/password as long as the > >>workstation account is created in samba. With XP, I use a user account > >>who is also part of the admins group, but as I said, I get an access denied. > >>Any idea ? > > > > > > Yes. The account you use to add machines has to have uid=0. ie: root. > > Is this *really* needed if the machine accounts are stored in LDAP? For > writing /etc/passwd you need to be root, but for writing LDAP you > usually don't need to be root... You only need to have execute > permissions for the machine-add script... > > As Andrew said, you have to be domain admin (that means ...-500 as SID), > but root??
As Andrew says, "Try it, why ask?" Let us know ow it goes. - 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