On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Davide Dozza wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I hope you can help me in clarifying my ideas. > I have read your howto in order to set Samba as Windows domain member. > I have exactly the same your configuration with DC used only for > authentication purpose. All shares are on the Samba server and nothing > apart authentication is provided by the DC. > The question is: clients partecipating to the domain (authenticated by > the DC) must have the Microsoft Call License? That is, it is necessary > for every client to have the licence required to connect to a Microsoft > server even if it does not share anything?
Hello Davide, I'm not that a expert in MS and licenses, but I will give you my ideas. First I would actually read the licenses to see what their terms are. The setup where my howto is based on also includes other still MS based file and print server, so I think the licenses isn't a real problem in my case. Second, you are taking about licenses for the clients, each clients that wants to connect to the DC needs a license? Of so then I don't think you need them. When a client connects to a Samba share it is Samba that does the request to the DC and not the client itself. So it is Samba itself that should need a license, but I don't know how that should work :-) If you are also letting the clients connect to the DC, e.g. for user logon authentication, then I don't know. Like I suggested, read the license itself. Hope this helps, Tim -- =========================================================================== Tim Verhoeven Linux & Open Source Specialist GSM : 0496 / 693 453 + e-business solutions Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] + consulting URL : www.sin.khk.be/~dj/ + Server consolidation =========================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba