NT4 server & Samba logons..totally confused

[Greg Dickie]

Hi Larry,

   I think the answer to the question is: " you don't". With samba acting as a
PDC you could have some NT workstations but you do not need an NT server at all
:-). In order to set up samba as a fully functional PDC you will want to set
domain logons = yes AND provide the people logging on with their roaming
profiles [profiles] and their home directories [homes]. 

  It should be said that although PDC functionality is not "officially"
supported in 2.0.4b it does pretty much work, although I run 2.1 prealpha as my
PDC.

  I don't know too much about RAS (and I want to keep it that way) so I can't
help much there.

Greg


On 07-Jun-99 Lanny Baron wrote:
> Hello Samba users,
> 
> note*** I am not subscribed to this list and if you answer it, please mail
> me back directly at lnb at cybertouch.org..thanks
> 
> I am really confused. I have read quite a few of the docs with
> Samba-2.0.4b, with respect to having an NT server and Samba. With NT
> running do you have domain logons = yes ? If so, what about [profiles] and
> [homes]? 
> 
> Maybe the question should be asked, if I have Samba running what do I need
> NT for? I had win98 running before and everything was fine. I killed the
> win98 box and installed NT4. I can't transfer (either by a windows ftp
> client or via Network Neighborhood) my directories on the NT box so I can
> go back to win98. 
> 
> My setup (topography) is one NT box, 2 FreeBSD/Samba boxes. You might ask
> what the F--K am i trying to accomplish. Well, I want people to be able to
> dialin via RAS (setting up PPP dialup is no easy task), then to be able to
> logon to their /home/user on the FreeBSD/Samba box. Be able to use shares
> set on the FreeBSD/Samba boxes. Again I ask, other than using NT for
> dialup (RAS) and seeing the problems I now face, what is the purpose of NT
> in a Samba run domain?
> 
> It's quite apparent to me that I don't understand netlogon's, and could
> really use some help by someone that understands what it is I am trying to
> do. If it turns out that what I am doing is completely nuts, please let me
> know. I have been at this since last Monday. Unable to upload from my NT
> box to my FreeBSD/Samba boxes my directories that I crucially need so that
> I can kill this NT box and put back Win98 and setup the smb.conf the way
> it was. Working perfect. 
> 
> It's that old story coming to haunt me. Why fix that which is not broken? 
> 
> Your help is GREATLY appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Lanny Baron
> 
> http://ca.samba.org/samba/samba.html

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