SAMBA again

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:28 -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 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)

And this results in creation of your machine account in the active
directory (windows 200x server)? Or is there more? Do you know the
easiest way to verify that the account is created? And, even better, a
simple way to test that it can validate a user?

--
Roger