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I have a Samba AD DC I'm setting up, and I have a bunch of smallish questions.

Adding users: It looks like there are three ways:

samba-tool user add USERNAME
pdbedit -a USERNAME
smbpasswd -a USERNAME

or, do some fancy things to link samba users and unix users. (as shown here)

What are the differences between those?

Is it possible to have some(not all) samba users linked to unix users, and keep passwords synched?

Roaming profiles: I set it up according to the samba wiki, but I need to modify each account with pdbedit -U username -p \\\\parabox\\profile\\%USERNAME%(parabox is the test domain box). Am I missing something about account creation, or is this expected?

I haven't done any research into this one at all, so feel free to ignore it, but how to setup policies.

Many thanks for any help, or links to documentation that I haven't been able to find.

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What I ended up with a lot later:

  • On account creation, it doesn't seem to matter what method is used.
  • On linked unix/samba users, I could not get it to work. I even did a clean install, but it was just too much effort; while it would be useful, I did not pursue it further.
  • On roaming profiles, it seems you need to set it up for each account manually.
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