[Samba] Adding a machine acount

Luca Olivetti
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:47:22 -0000

Al 12/10/2011 13:33, En/na Dermot ha escrit:
> Hi,
>
> I migrated from an MS NT Domain to a samba3 domain some time back. I
> forgot about a couple of machines and am trying to add them. These are
> Buffalo NAS workstations so are basically *nix machines with a web
> interface.

Most probably the web interface only allows to join an AD domain (at
least that's what happens to a Lacie network drive, I suppose Buffalo
does the same).
Even obtaining shell access and manually configuring samba to join the
domain wouldn't work (the stock firmware would rewrite the configuration
at every boot), so the only option is to replace the stock firmware with
a normal Linux distribution (usually debian), provided there's one
available for your model and you can find instruction on how to do it
(e.g. at nas-central.org).
If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it, not only will you
void
your warranty, you can also lose all of the data in it.

Bye
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Luca Olivetti
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