Re: [Samba] enable client to join domain with no or any password?

2010-09-02 Thread David Mathog
David Mathog wrote: Jean-Jacques Moulis wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:33:25 -0700 David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu wrote: DM I am trying to automate W7 joining to our Samba domain. It works fine DM through the Windows GUI from the W7 workstations. However, for a script DM one would

Re: [Samba] enable client to join domain with no or any password?

2010-09-02 Thread David Mathog
More information. For the restricted access sjacct of the preceding post, it WILL join/unjoin correctly using the System control panel (this is on XP). It just doesn't join using those credentials in Powershell. Here are the two commands: $CI=Get-WmiObject win32_ComputerSystem -Authentication

Re: [Samba] enable client to join domain with no or any password?

2010-08-30 Thread David Mathog
Jean-Jacques Moulis wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:33:25 -0700 David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu wrote: DM I am trying to automate W7 joining to our Samba domain. It works fine DM through the Windows GUI from the W7 workstations. However, for a script DM one would have to store password used

Re: [Samba] enable client to join domain with no or any password?

2010-08-18 Thread David Mathog
It looks like I am getting a little ahead of myself. Make that WAY ahead of myself. I _really_ do not understand the transaction between the client and the server when it joins or removes itself from a domain. I monitored this with log level set to 31 and wireshark running with host (server

[Samba] enable client to join domain with no or any password?

2010-08-17 Thread David Mathog
I am trying to automate W7 joining to our Samba domain. It works fine through the Windows GUI from the W7 workstations. However, for a script one would have to store password used for domain access, and since that is the server's root password, I really don't want to hard code that into a file.

Re: [Samba] enable client to join domain with no or any password?

2010-08-17 Thread David Mathog
It looks like I am getting a little ahead of myself. While it is possible to join/leave a domain from W7 clients via start-control panel - system so far I have not been able to do it from powershell (as administrator). For instance remove-computer -cred root prompts for the password, type

Re: [Samba] enable client to join domain with no or any password?

2010-08-17 Thread Jean-Jacques Moulis
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:33:25 -0700 David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu wrote: DM I am trying to automate W7 joining to our Samba domain. It works fine DM through the Windows GUI from the W7 workstations. However, for a script DM one would have to store password used for domain access, and since that