SAMBA again

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I have been trying to get a Windows Primary Domain Controller (PDC) to
validate users for my Linux SAMBA. I seem on the verge of getting it to
work. I have one question I don't see a proper answer for:

When I join a domain, the docs say to log in as 'administrator'. Is this
a requirement that you be administrator on the PDC, or just sloppy
documentation? There is no way in hell your average admin is going to
give out administrator accounts/passwords to linux boxes scattered
around the net so that their samba servers can do authentication. Is it
perhaps that you just need a user on the PDC with some specific rights?
I have not found these documented in such a away that I can communicate
these to out local PDC admin. I just see references to 'administrator'.

Where in SAMBA/winbind do you configure the name/password of the user
you should use to join the domain? 

Talk about an area with bad documentation. There is lots of it. But it
is mostly bad. I have read so much, and it does not always help. The
suggested By-Example book does not, that I could identify as such, give
a step-by-step COMPLETE guide to joining a domain to authenticate users.
You always get one bit here, a disconnected bit there, and so on.


-- 
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB