Joining Linux to Windows domain

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:34:07PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > I have joined Linux machines to Windows PDCs before with cooperation from the 
> > Windows admins.  Basically Windows admin adds your machine to the domain, you 
> > join the domain with a special invocation of smbpasswd and life is good.
> > 
> > I'm now in a situation where I'd like to add my machine to the domain without 
> > involving the windows admins because I know they will not do it ... but I 
> > haven't been told that I should not do it :-)
> > 
> > I have XP on my laptop as well, I presume that all I really need is the 
> > machine account password ... can I find a machine account password within my 
> > Windows XP drive and use those credentials within Linux?  Any other ideas?
> 
> This is based on what I know is the case whan samba is the PDC and you
> join a domain.  Maybe it is different with a windows PDC, but I doubt
> it.
> 
> 1: A machine account is created on the PDC without a key by the admin,
> or it is created when connecting by providing a username/password
> during to join of a user that has authority to create such an account on
> the fly.

Right.  So in this case, unless you have a username and password for an
account with sufficient authority, you can't use this method.

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