Samba TNG "Windows NT Terminal Server" Possible / Not possible ?

[Charles N. Owens]

Elrond wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:35:20AM -0400, Charles N. Owens wrote:
> > Pascal OFFREDO wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
> > >  I'd like that people connecting to TSE could authenticate against
> > > PDC/LDAP server. Is it possible to do it with the current version of
> > > samba-tng ?
> >
> > I have had running for about a year and a half several TSE servers (in
> > standalone mode) that are joined to domain served by a Samba PDC (using
> > -HEAD code from way back then).  This has worked quite well.
>
> Yup. You should be able to install it as a standalone
> server, and then join it to the samba-tng domain, so it
> becomes a domain member and you can authenticate against
> the samba-tng-pdc.
>
> [...]
> > I'm about to try this myself, actually, except at the same time I'll be
> > moving to Win2000-based Terminal Services (W2K-TS).  One thing that has
> > me slightly concerned is Terminal Services License Server.  The W2K-TS
> > servers are supposed to use the domain controller to find the License
> > Server.  I'm hoping that TNG domain support is so complete that this
> > will "just work"... if not I'll be back to this list soon asking for
> > help.  Comments on this, anyone?
>
> Ummm...
>
> I don't know of any code in TNG, that has to do with
> TS-Licensing. I doubt, that this will work.
>
> You could try, if you can get the w2k-ts to do the
> licensing localy. The main question is: What would w2k-ts
> do in a standard nt4-domain? The pdc in that domain
> wouldn't know anything about w2k-ts-licensing either?

Hmmm... okay maybe my worry is unfounded...