Samba and winbind will do file and print serve, as well as controls your authentication to other windows machines. But the really big problem for me is that windows users won't get notified of an expiring password from samba servers it seems that you need a windows server to send those types of notifications.
I have a rather limited experience with Linux as web server, but, I got asked 'what does it take/need to replace a windoze file server with a Linux one ?' if I have a windoze LAN with a W2000 server, and, all they use the server for is file and printer sharing, what would it need to replace the W2000 server with a Linux server, to provide 'equivalent' services ? what else does MS small business server provides, and, how easily can that be provided on a Linux server ? Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
