RE: Creating Machine Accounts for MS WinClients
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Gesel|ensetter [mailto:rgx@gmx.de]
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 10:02 PM
> To: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Creating Machine Accounts for MS WinClients
>
>
> Dear List,
>
> having several MS Windows clients at our school, I never had
> to add machine
> accounts on the server. Instead I joined the domain
> "SKOLELINUX" from the
> clients using the samba-root-account. My experience is
> limited to WinNT and
> Win2k, however.
>
> Now there have been descriptions on how to create machine
> accounts that tell
> the reader to use webmin.
Where are that descriptions?
> Is this for W98 then? Or other
> versions? Or is it
> rather obsolete?
>
Win98 clients do not need a machine account. Not in samba and not in MS
WinNT/W2k-Server.
They are only WORKGROUP members. They are not joining the MS-DOMAIN like
a WinNT/W2k-Client.
> This question is mainly for consistent documentation, I'd
> never use webmin to
> add machine accounts.
See for further details:
http://developer.skolelinux.no/dokumentasjon/IKT-bok.html.de#id2502088
Regards
Jürgen
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