[KLUG Members] Help for upgrade to Samba 3.0.1 (LDAPSAM) fm 2.2.8a anybody?

[Adam Williams]

> Bingo!! Here is what I did.
> 1. I created an account uid=root and made it a member of Domain Admins.
> 2. I removed posixAccount so that Linux would not see it.
> 3. I added objecclass=sambaSamAccount to the machine's account.
> 4. I restarted my client box and used my old procedure for adding the
> cleint to the domain with the exception that I used root/rootspw to join
> the domain.
> ...and viola! I can now get it to join the domain. Now lets see what
> other problems I've got.

Cool beans!

> Note that 3 above was the real issue since the other things had been
> tried before.
> Now I am going to see if I can actualy log in.... Yahooo!!! It works, it
> works... 

Excellent.  Welcome to the home stretch.

> now I will leave the domain and log out, delete the machine
> record to see if it can add one automatically or not.... I'm expecting
> it not to because I've been tweaking with the perms... Hmmmm Yup, sure
> enough, looks like I've got trouble with getting the scripts to behave
> properly but it is not perms.  I'll work on that and then move to perms.

Your talking about add user acount = , etc...?

> Hmmm... acually can't net3 be used to do all the stuff that manage this
> stuff?

Not certain what you mean by "all the stuff".