On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 17:22, gary ng wrote: > Hi, > > The 'add machine script' and 'add user script' is very > handy in creating samba user accounts and joining > machines to domain. > > However, the 'add machine script' needs to first > create a 'unix account' in order for samba to proceed > and create the necessary SID entry. This unix account > is no longer used after this process(at least I have > deleted it and not seeing any side effect yet). So is > it possible to bypass the 'uid must exist first' > requirment ?
Samba 3.0 may enforce this requirement much more strictly (due to changes in our sid->uid code), and the uid is still in use - as you *must not* have two machines with the same SID. (which is based on the UID). You have 2^32 uids on most systems - I'm sure you won't miss them... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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