I am not sure if this is the correct mailling list - please bear with me...
I am looking for a possible mixture of DOMAIN and WORKGROUP mode. And I am wondering if this possible at all: Example: imagine you have linux boxes with local accounts but with PAM settings that will authenticate against a single server. I want to have something similar with windows workstations. I want all w2k workstations to have only local accounts (with local profiles etc) but the authentication come from an external source (preferable) samba. Now, what are the options? a) running in WORKGROUP mode but tell windows to authenticate against another machine in the WORKGROUP. No idea how to achieve that - doubt it is possible at all (is it)? b) running in DOMAIN mode but force all windows workstations not to load/save their profiles to the PDC. I assume this is the way to go?! It's not exactly the same - but comes close to what I need... c)? Any comments are appreciated. If this is considered OT a private mail will do ;-) Thanks -- Torsten