Microsoft "Address Book"

[Lisa Becktold {CADIG STAFF}]

Hi:

We have Samba installed on an SGI Challenger 2000, and it has replaced
our NT Server.  All the NT workstations in our classrooms log into the Samba 
domain.  This has worked very well all semester.  

We also use Samba for file sharing - users on Windows 95/98 PCs can access
their UNIX home directories.

O.K., so here's a wierd question - does Samba provide Microsoft
"Address Book" emulation?

A PC/Network administrator here is trying to run Microsoft Remote
Registry on a Windows 98 machine, which would allow him to remotely
administer other Windows 98 machines.  However, when he tries to
add a user to the "Remote Administrator's List"¸ he is prompted
to enter a machine that is an "Address Book Provider".  The
administrator enters the name of our Samba server, but then a box
pops up with this error message:

	"An error occurred trying to access the Address Book Provider"

But when he enters the name of the Windows NT PDC, a list of users
immediately pops up.

Is there any way around this?  Or is this "Address Book" definitely
a Microsoft thing?  Do we have to home the Windows 95/98 PC to an
NT server, instead of our Samba server? 

Has anyone else run into this?

Lisa

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      Lisa M. Becktold - lisa at usna.navy.mil, (410) 293-6480
               United States Naval Academy - CADIG          
    590 Holloway Road, Rickover Hall, Annapolis, MD 21402-5000
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      Lisa M. Becktold - lisa at usna.navy.mil, (410) 293-6480
               United States Naval Academy - CADIG          
    590 Holloway Road, Rickover Hall, Annapolis, MD 21402-5000