We just recently set up Samba as a PDC in our research lab. Byron is the resident expert on this, and he helped us out. We had a tough time getting it working, and eventually one of the guys searched Google to find some obscure information on getting it set up right. There are some magic values to put in your smb.conf file, and there are a couple of registry entries in Windows that need to be edited by hand. But now it's working. You might want to search Google for the answers...
Mike On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 19:09, David Smith wrote: > 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 -- ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Assistant, Network Security Lab | Dept. of Comp. Science | Brigham Young University A directive occured while processing | this error. | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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