hi folks, I have a small problem with joining samba to an Active Directory domain & would really appreciate the help of some Samba Gurus.
I have windows and linux both installed on my workstation. My windows installation is joined to an Active Directory domain and I would like my linux installation to join the same domain with the same identity using Samba. The problem is, I don't have access to domain administrator credentials and so would like to use the same machine trust account password as is used by the windows installation, in Samba too. So, I understand that I need to supply the correct "machine trust account" password to Samba, which I was able to obtain from windows by dumping the LSA secret named "$MACHINE.ACC". The problem is, this password is in a UCS-2 (little-endian) encoding and If I just copy and paste the same into the SECRETS/MACHINE_ACCOUNT/PASSWORD key (in the secrets.tdb file), it does not work (I get some sort of kerberos authentication failed error). I even tried to convert the password to UTF8 encoding and feed the resulting byte string to samba and that ran into some problems too. So my question is, how do I make Samba interpret the UCS-2 encoded machine trust account password correctly? If I can do this, I can make Samba join the domain too, just by having copied the identity and credentials from the windows installation. any helpful suggestions/ comments? thanks -dev -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba