Samba and $

Guillaume amyfoub at videotron.ca
Tue Aug 5 14:22:43 PDT 2003


Le Lun 04/08/2003 à 20:41, Jon Reynolds a écrit :
> On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:25, Bob Collins wrote:
> > At 02:07 PM 8/4/2003 -0500, gfsd wrote:
> > >Why can't i create a user with a $ on the end? For machine trust accounts 
> > >i need to add each one by hand, instead of on the fly creation. When I use 
> > >adduser it will not let me add a user with a $ on the end, is there a way 
> > >around that?
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> > That is to be expected in FreeBSD and Samba. It is in the notes. So, what 
> > you do, is make your user. The edit, by hand, the password file. vipw is 
> > the command to use. Add the $ and save the file.
> > 
> > No real way around it that I know of.
> > 
> > -- Bob
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> Is there a good howto for setting up freebsd as a pdc with winxp? I am
> having a helluva time trying to get the xp box to logon.
> 

You need to apply this patch
(/usr/local/share/doc/samba/Registry/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg) in your WinXP
registry. If your PDC works with Win2000 client, it will work with
WinXP+registry hack.



Guillaume

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