SAMBA again

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Thursday 24 November 2005 02:55, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> name system using their internal addresses. I would have thought that
> the NAT would have handled this directly. But, that is not how it is
> done.

That would depend on if you are SNAT *and* DNAT, so the replies don't go 
directly back to the originating internal host (with an IP which doesn't 
match any known connection attempt)
>
> One additional question: I have asked the IT guy here for a 'machine
> account' in the active directory. He is looking in to it. The SAMBA docs
> are a bit sketchy on this, but is the very act of the admin logging in
> from my machine what it takes to create the machine account? The docs
> mention many steps, but I think the assume that I know the relationship
> between them. When it come to the MS part, this is a bad assumption.

I've always had better luck having the admin locally type in the password at 
my box when doing the net rpc join (smbpasswd -j, whatever)

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