[KLUG Members] Help! Samba LDAP 2.2.8a - can't add a machine

[Jim C.]

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Adam Williams wrote:

|
| Don't know what your trying to accomplish here; smbusers is a
| gnarly hack and I've never had any need to use it.
|
| You can't logon to a domain from a machine that hasn't joined the
| domain,  and you can't join the domain if you've established any
| other-credential connections to a domain resourse, and you'll be
| prompted for a user/secret pair if you attempt to join the domain
| as a local administrator - so why all this fuss about mapping
| administrator to something?  Just logon as the logon administrator,
|  select join domian, and when prompted enter root and root
| password. Once that works you can try mangling names,  but don't
| try to debug/setup a process while using mangled names.  They say
| journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and not a
| game of hop-scotch, for a reason.
|
| And your setting "username map" equal to the absolute path to your
| smbusers file?

Greetings once again Adam and as always thanks for your help.

Actually, I've finally gotten this working with the exception that I
cannot seem to add a machine with out using the IDEALX scripts from
the command line.  I've checked perms and ownership on these and I've
tried using a wrapper script to see if any errors are produced.  The
result, however was that Samba never seems to call the add user
script.  I can see it trying to in the logs but the script never seems
to execute.
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