From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 12:41:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usagi.cts.com (usagi.cts.com [209.68.192.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C79151B8 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ctsmhn@cts.com) Received: from CARTMAN (cartman.cts.com [205.163.23.192]) by usagi.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA10502 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904221939.MAA10502@usagi.cts.com> From: "Matthew H. North" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:38:33 -0800 Reply-To: "Matthew H. North" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Standard (2.00.1500) For Windows NT (5.0.2000) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Samba port & adding machine users to /etc/passwd for PDC setup Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, According to the Samba documentation, in order to create machine logins (a-la an NT domain login situation), the machine's name must be added to the /etc/passwd (et. al.) files for authentication. The problem with this is that it also requires a '$' at the end of the machine's name in /etc/passwd, but the utility that updates the pwd.db and spwd.db files bawks on the $ in the username... is there any way around this? Matthew H. North CTSNET Assistant Administrator ___ ____ ___ / / /__ Network | Tel 619/637-3600 | Mail: ctsmhn@cts.com /__ / ___/ Services | Fax 619/637-3630 | WWW: http://www.cts.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message