On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:50:21AM -0500, Brian Foddy wrote: > I have a quick question on hooking Samba to a large AD domain. > Following the excellent recipe at: > > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory > > I see it states about half way down to join the machine to AD > > "Now to join your machine to the active directory. You will need the > user-name and password to a Domain Administrator account to do this. The > command you need to join the domain is net ads join -U sadwrn. This > should then ask you for a password, and print a domain join notice." > > Is this required to use a Domain Administrator account, or can any > normal user AD account be used? I know AD doesn't allow anonymous > browsing, but can a normal non-admin account be used? As I read through > it, I don't see any other special admin access required other the root > on the Linux machine.
Any account with the ability to join a machine to a domain can be used. You only need this for the join operation, in daily use no extra permission is needed (it acts the same way as a Windows box in the domain). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba