[Samba] samba without netbios

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Oct 26 16:26:11 GMT 2005


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John H Terpstra wrote:

| The desire by the person who asked the question is to run
| a Samba-3 server  without NetBIOS. The intent, as I
| understood the request, is to run Samba-3 as a Domain
| Controller without NetBIOS, and no MS ADS server.
|
| To the Samba admin: Go on try it! That's the best
| advice. That way you will see what works and what
| doesn't. Don't take anyone's advice - noone does
| anyhow.

OK.  For the original post and for the archives...


* Samba is the equivalent of an NT 4 domain controller.
Windows NT 4 requires netbios.

* Samba is the equivalent of a Windows 2000 domain member
server.  No netbios required here.



cheers, jerry
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