On 7/23/05 2:33 AM, "Martin Carlsson" <martin.carlsson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Vidol Loeung skrev: > >> Dear All: >> >> Has anyone been able to make Samba PDC work on RHEL4? It seems to have >> problem. It wouldn't add the machine trust account with the 'add user >> script' directive. >> >> And when I tried the command: >> # useradd -M 'testpc$' >> >> It said "Invalid user name". >> >> Any ideas would be much appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> Vidol >> >> >> > Maybe if you just type: useradd -M testpc > > What is the ' and the $ for? For some reason, Samba requires the account to have this at the bottom. I know that in the NT 4 world, a share that ends with a '$' character is considered a hidden share. I think that this is the same for user$. On my FC3 box, which is a PDC for a bunch of Windows XP Pro machines, I use the following script: # machacct_create.sh /bin/bash useradd -g users -d /dev/null -s /dev/null $1\$ smbpasswd -a -m $1 Usage is: ./machacct_create.sh FooBar I hope that this helps.
