SAMBA again

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 22:17 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Have you got a valid machine account added to AD yet? It seems that you 
> are being given "the run-around". Very common, very typical. You need to 
> pretend to be a clueless newbie admin and ask them if they can create an 
> account for a Windows PC (Note: I say Windows PC, not Linux Samba PC! 

This I did way back when. And I got a user account with the name of my
machine. Not a machine account in the AD. So, it was back to the drawing
board. They are busy seeing how to make a machine account in the AD. And
I suspect that they way to do that is for them, as administrator, to log
in to their network via the 'net join ads...' command from my machine.
At that time, the machines, SIHBLTB, exchange details that establishes
my machine within their AD. Then, SAMBA uses that hook to validate user
credentials for their users wanting to access SAMBA shares on my Linux
box.

That's the dream.

> Even if it is a lie...). Appealing to their ego and specifying what you 
> need clearly, yet humbly, will get you much further. I've had to jump 
> through a LOT of hoops in my time, before I could even join one Windows 
> notebook to the domain (took me almost 3 months of weekly reminders to 
> the Windows admins), so expect to be frustrated and be very, very patient.

I know. But I am trying to organize access to my company's information
for access by the company that bought us. They want it now. But their IT
guys don't seem to understand 'now'. 

So, I am also looking at a web-based thing to give the same result.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB