From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 10: 0:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1942215693 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from PARANOR (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA24512; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:06:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991223125907.01496010@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:59:07 -0500 To: "Michael P. Neuman" From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: FreeBSD password problem. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38623FE9.64EFAEAC@journalstar.com> References: <000701bf4d57$553826a0$0400a8c0@smb-4.cmsnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Michael P. Neuman" wrote: > > Hello. I'm running FreeBSD-3.3-RELEASE with the latest release of > Samba. I have a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on my Network and want it > to join the samba domain. The samba docs say to add a user to the > unix password database called workstation_name$. The problem is > FreeBSD doesn't accept the $ at the end of the user name. How can I > go about fixing this problem so that I can add the user > wordstation_name$ . Any help would be appreciated. thanks. AFAIK, FreeBSD usernames are currently limited to 16 characters, and may be comprised of only lower case letters and/or digits. _If_ Samba can handle a trailing $ in a username (which it ought to if Windoze can do it), then you would probably want to try the "username map" command in smb.conf. man smb.conf and look for "username map" it gives examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message