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Hi list! Many questions are asked and answered about resolving user accounts. But does winbind resolve computer accounts? To elaborate some: it is perfectly all right to add computer accounts to access groups and use them in ACLs on a share or folder. For instance you would like a startup script to run on a client computer before a user logs on. Or perhaps you would like a server (account)

...my purposes, I downloaded and installed Samba from source (version 3.5.8). Everything went fine so far. We currently run an older version (3.0.26a) of samba as PDC . I copied the tdbsam databases from the current PDC over to the new one. This seems to have worked very well, since all users and computeraccounts were accessible by pdbedit. I could also logon with my old credentials, too! My password was accepted, my roaming profile was read and written correctly, etc. All seems very good. Now to the problem: I asked two collegues of mine to try their logins with a Windows Server 2008 R2 and an Windows...

Hi Samba community, Here is a problem I could not solve. I would like to mount a cifs share to my local Linux machine, which is bound to a windows domain using winbind. The share needs to be mounted by the linux machine's computer account. Here is what I do: # su - DOMAIN\\computer$ [DOMAIN\computercomputer ~]$ <<< i think there is a problem with the bash prompt, skip it for now

On 31/05/2023 16:44, Ivan Lopez via samba wrote: > Hi, Rowland. Thanks for your answer. There is the result of testparm -s > in Ubuntu 20. I've send the result of testparm -v because I thought that > some default could have changed between versions. There may have been changes between versions, but it is what you are running now that counts, your very long smb.conf was off putting

Hi. my last post was about upscale configuration for my WinXP clients, because I believed I had it working, but ... Next day I booted the client and .... it wouldnt let me log onto the domain again. :-( I am using Samba 2.2.8a with Ldap backend which works great in workgroup mode. Joining the domain is very easy and works well, but then after rebooting I get: "Es kann keine