samba - Mar 2004 - Machine accounts, Samba 3, NT Domain migration

Greetings everyone
I finally succeeded in doing the seemingly most difficult thing, "following
directions." I got my act together configuring the smb.conf and migrating
using net rpc vampire into tdbsam. There are issues with this migration in which
computer netbios names which are obviously all uppercase were not being created
in /etc/passwd. I put my C cap on and converted the computer names to lowercase
before handing them over to the add machine script. When I join a machine to the
domain, it works beautifully, but there is a problem with the migrated machine
accounts. No machine can log on because its account is not valid on the samba
DC. The way I structured my add machine shell script is this:

#!/bin/sh
str=`/etc/samba/convert $1`
useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -s /bin/false -M $str
passwd -l $str
compname=`echo $str | cut -f1 -d$`
smbpasswd -a -m -n $compname

I must be doing something unnecessary here for the migrated machine accounts not
to work. Can someone throw some light on this? I am sorry if this has already
been answered. It must have, but I couldnt find it using any searches that my
limited intellect could come up with on the list archives. Appreciate your time.
Saqib Ilyas

* "M Saqib Ilyas" <msaqib@ieee.org> nulis:
> Greetings everyone
> I finally succeeded in doing the seemingly most difficult thing,
"following directions." I got my act together configuring the smb.conf
and migrating using net rpc vampire into tdbsam. There are issues with this
migration in which computer netbios names which are obviously all uppercase were
not being created in /etc/passwd. I put my C cap on and converted the computer
names to lowercase before handing them over to the add machine script. When I
join a machine to the domain, it works beautifully, but there is a problem with
the migrated machine accounts. No machine can log on because its account is not
valid on the samba DC. The way I structured my add machine shell script is this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> str=`/etc/samba/convert $1`
> useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -s /bin/false -M $str
> passwd -l $str
> compname=`echo $str | cut -f1 -d$`
> smbpasswd -a -m -n $compname
> 
> I must be doing something unnecessary here for the migrated machine
accounts not to work. Can someone throw some light on this? I am sorry if this
has already been answered. It must have, but I couldnt find it using any
searches that my limited intellect could come up with on the list archives.
Appreciate your time.
> Saqib Ilyas

Well, congratulations.
most likely you need to rejoin all of your clients before running rpc vampire.

After this step is complete, you can then login from client to samba  domain
without rejoining again.
 
 

--beast