Ah the joys of NT domains!
Ok, here's what you can do with your NT4 box, but I'm afraid you're out of luck with Win2K.
You cannot CREATE an account for your machine on the e-smith server at the NT workstation. You have to create the account on the e-smith server.
Every NT Workstation or server that will be on the domain must have its own passwd entry in BOTH /etc/passwd and /etc/(etc/samba/ for the 4.1 version) smbpasswd.
The /etc/passwd entry is really only to reserve a user ID , the other one stores the NT encrypted password. (Note that win95/98 machines don't need an account as they don't do any security aware things.)
e-smith does BOTH of these things through the user manager, but some people may NOT want the machine accounts showing up on the e-smith manager, and there are other troubles too...see below
You can use the console to add an NT machine account, in this case for "NTWKSTN".
I have a group, 'machines' (you will need to add that yourself or use another group name), there should be no password, shell or home directory and the name is the NT workstation name with a '$' added at the end. :
adduser –g machines –c NTMachine –d /dev/null –s /bin/false –n NTWKSTN$
Note : e-smith manager does NOT like finding '$' in a user name, add the entry directly to /etc/passwd using adduser or similar.
Add that name to smbpasswd (assumes you have a link to smbpasswd on path) :
smbpasswd –a –m NTWKSTN$
Logon to the NT workstation in question as a local admin, go to the Control Panel-Network-IdentificationTag.
Press the change button and then enter the Domain name (from the 'Workgroup' parameter, smb.conf ) in the Domain Field. (Don't check the box, Create a Computer Account in the Domain', it won't work !)
Press OK and you will after a few seconds get a 'Welcome to the E-SMITH Domain'. Reboot and logon using a domain user name proceed to make some domain users.
Hope this helps.
BTW, I can't even get 98 to talk to the new beta 4.1 e-smith!, so consider yourself lucky!
Jean-Francois Zahnen wrote:
> We installed n e-smith server with all patches. (4.0.1)
> Configured as a dedicated server with cablemodem. All
> workstations are win98 except for one win2000 pro and one win
> NT4.0 wks
>
> First question : From win98, no problem, I can connect to
> domain controller (e-smith) Fron NT4 and win2000, have an error
> message when I try to create an account on the domain. So I
> have to configure them in workgroup.
>
> Second question : The old file server was the NT4.0
> Workstation. We made a transfer from it to the new server
> E-smith, but as in french we have accentuated characters (éàè
> etc...). We didn't pay attention to that, because we've had no
> error message copying them from the NT workstation. Now from
> win98, when a directory or a file has one of these character,
> it is empty (directory) or it does not exists (file), you can't
> delete it or modify it. The fun part is that from win2000 orwin
> nt4 we have no problem and everything has been copied.
>
> Any Idea ?
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