PDCs are tough to setup. But, Samba has come a long long way and it works very very well. I can't take credit for the setup in the CS department, but we've got 100+ Win2k clients and a WinXP client authenticating with thousands of users to a Samba PDC on RedHat7.3 (using LDAP) and it works wonderfully. The only problem we've had is roaming profiles, but we don't think it's a Samba problem. Let's face it: multi-user in Windows is an afterthought and a hack. Having to download the whole profile on login and re-upload the whole thing on log-out is just plain dumb. But, these sorts of design problems exist regardless of the backend.
So, in a nutshell: Samba works awesome with both Win2k and XP. There are not that many good HOWTOs out there, but you'll need one. --Dave <quote who="Arthur Moore"> > > > Has anyone used Samba as a PDC for Windows2000 and WindowsXP > professional? I've heard that it doesn'twork that great with Windows > 2000, and only works with a big fat prayer with Windows XP. But that > could have been older versions, and it's hard to keep up with Samba > development. Anyone got any hints to getting it to work? Any experience > like "Yeah it works great you just got to configure it correctly", or > "Man I had the hardest time with that, I still curse it to this day!". I > haven't really delved into it much, I just want to know if there is > anything I need to watch out for. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
