w9x domain logon work

[markus stephany]

Hello folks,

first, i wish you:
 may the schwartz be with you!

some people seem to have problems with w9x's quasi-domain logon and
samba tng 2.6, i can confirm that this does work at least for win98 SE
and win95 OEM 2.1 (under vmware on a w2k box) to a tng 2.6 on a suse
linux 6.whatever (kernel 2.2.13).

since i can't get around with the mysterious printing system of tng and
also the character mapping doesn't seem to work correctly, i let tng
just do the authentification and a samba 2.07 on the same machine does
the file and printer serving (except of the netlogon share),i renamed
2.07 nmbd and smbd to _nmbd, _smbd, created a virtual ethernet
interface (eth0:0) with a different ip address and bound the different
samba's to these two interfaces, and everything works as expected (i
didn't try to use policies so far).

some hints:

- sharing profiles between win95 and win98 seems not to be a good
idea, some values in the user's hive seem to have completely different
meanings under both "os's".

- if the logon script works under nt but not under w9x ("file not
found"), it may be a file permission issue; finally i got it working
when i used the "force user" option in the [netlogon] share, chowned
the logon script to that user and set the permissions to 0500.

thank you for your creating that great samba (tng) stuff!

-- 
rgds, markus stephany
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