Hello, Setup: Samba 3rc3 PDC, ldapsam based, Openldap 2.1, RedHat 9 Question: Is it possible to assign the same UID to all machine accounts? I am referring just to the number, of course there has to be one entry for each machine with it's own unique username. Questions Background: Personally I would prefer a "non unix account solution" for Windows machine accounts. Nevertheless this is not in samba3. From my point of view these accounts are just containers to store a password in that will never operate on the servers files. To add users I need to define the "add machine script" in smb.conf with some "ldapadd" command. It is a nuisance that I have to publish a username/password pair with appropriate rights on the ldap server in smb.conf anyways, but I can at least circumvent this a bit with a user that has only access to the ou that stores the machine accounts. It would be a nice feature to have an "ldap machine add" setting which would imply the use of the "ldap proot dn" for the operation. I still need to specify a uid for the machine account and I want to have the machine accounts in a different number range from the "normal" user accounts - so I wondered whether this uid has to be unique. thanks a lot for all comments that enlighten me. ;) regards, Gunther -- Gunther Schlegel Riege Software International GmbH Manager System Administration Mollsfeld 10 40670 Meerbusch, Germany Email: schlegel@riege.de Phone: +49-2159-9148-0 Fax: +49-2159-9148-11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: You may grab my GPG key from http://www.keyserver.net . A nonproportional font is recommended for reading. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20030909/1f155f22/attachment.bin