Hi, I don't know who else responded to this, but there are many people out there using Samba as replacement for Win2k servers.
Here's my personal involvement and a little history. I'm in a school system in Mass. where we have 7 Samba servers (1 PDC 6 BDC). I'm guessing there are about 2300+ user accounts and don't know how many computer accounts. It works well. We started with version 2.2.X on Slackware with 1 server 3 users. Graduated to RedHat 8.0/LDAP on 5 servers. This past summer every server was upgraded to Fedora Core 4 Samba 3.0.14a/passbackend LDAP 2.2.23. There is a slave LDAP server running on the BDCs because they are in different buildings. LDAP master is on a separate server than the PDC but they are in the same data closet in the same building. We did this because the LDAP master serves as a passbackend for other systems, for example: Cyrus IMAP, Moddle, SquirrelMail, other home grown applications that use LDAP for authentication. We don't use the normal tools for managing user/group accounts. We are a school system, accounts for students start in Middle School and follow them to High School. We needed to be able to bulk add, delete and modify user accounts in addition to one-at-a-time modifications, so our tools are geared towards this. Our client systems range from Win95 to XP. We use Kixtart script processor to run OS specific scripts. The howto's are a good place to start and they are pretty specific. I'd start with getting a working LDAP directory first, then move on to Samba. I can't give you any specifics, but if you are going to use LDAP determine how your directory tree will look, and get your base local/domain groups in LDAP. There are many smb.confs out there that will work as PDC. Post how things are going. Everyone's here to help. Kent N > Hi > > I am trying to find someone who can help me with configuring samba as a > Win2k PDC, I have read various How-TO's and the online reference material > but some of it has conflicting advice. I wondered if someone who has > actually managed to configure and uses samba as a Win2k PDC and logon > server > could email me to help me with this issue. > > Javid Mahdavi > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba