From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 15:59:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c000.paix.cp.net (c000-h002.c000.paix.cp.net [209.228.15.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAFA915A13 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: (cpmta 28392 invoked from network); 22 Apr 1999 15:55:28 -0700 Received: from usr5-ppp60.lvdi.net (HELO lvdi.net) (216.24.141.60) by smtp.lvdi.net with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 15:55:28 -0700 X-Sent: 22 Apr 1999 22:55:28 GMT Message-ID: <371FAA08.60FDF5A3@lvdi.net> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:00:24 -0700 From: notme Organization: me++ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew H. North" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Samba port & adding machine users to /etc/passwd for PDC setup References: <199904221939.MAA10502@usagi.cts.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Well, you can just create account for the Win clients from the FreeBSD end, (just use good old adduser or pw) and then use (if you have MS clients) Clients for MS Network under network property... Then create the home directory for the client, and edit the smb.conf so that the home directory can be seen from the win machines. When the users logon, all they have to do is just type in their username and password when MS Clients asks for them... :) further doc can be found in www.samba.org and /user/local/share/doc/samba I hope this helps... :) Frankie "Matthew H. North" wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message