Hello all, My question is what functionality do machine accounts have in a samba PDC set up? I can authenticate a user and use samba shares sans any issues, without a machine account. I have done some research but have not found any concrete info pertaining to this. I appreciate everyone's time. Cheers, Tony ------------------------------- Tony Ricker Technology Coordinator SLUCare - P.M.O. St. Louis University Phone: 314.977.6844 E-mail: rickera2@slu.edu ------------------------------- "In the beginners mind, there are many possibilities. In the experts mind, there are few" - Shunryu Suzuki ------------------------------- "Think Different"
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Tony Ricker wrote:> My question is what functionality do machine accounts have in a > samba PDC set up? I can authenticate a user and use samba shares sans > any issues, without a machine account. I have done some research but > have not found any concrete info pertaining to this. I appreciate > everyone's time.a machine trust account allows a domain member and a domain controller to have a shared secret for authenticating the member and ecnrypting certain traffic between the two. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- www.samba.org SAMBA Team jerry_at_samba.org www.plainjoe.org jerry_at_plainjoe.org --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--