basic questions

[Lars Kneschke]

Martijn Grendelman wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I have been following this list for a couple of weeks now, and I have learnt
> a lot, but there still remain some questions unanswered for me, that I can't
> seem to find in the other docs either:
> 
> - What is the difference between the HEAD and TNG branches? Should I see
> HEAD as pre-2.1 and TNG as pre-3.0? How do they differ in functionality?
> What's the deal on using smbd and nmbd from HEAD and all the other deamons
> from TNG?
I have updated the webpages some days ago. At the startpage is now a
list about the advances and disadvances of the different branches. If
you read it, and it didn't help you, i would be very interessted to hear
what's not clear.

> - What do 'all those' daemons from TNG (netlogond, lsarpcd, browserd, etc.)
> do? A short description would be nice, maybe Lars can add this to his FAQ or
> something?
I would add a new FAQ-Point. But there is also a README in the
source-tree. Pelase read <your samba source dir>/source/README

> - I really would like domain logons for NT4 workstations to work well. Being
> able to use the User Mgr for Domains would be nice, but is not essential.
> Being able to have domain users as LOCAL admins would be even nicer! What do
> I need (i.e. which version of Samba)?
Samba TNG or mixed Samba TNG/Head should do it. I don't get local admins
working, but domain admins did it.

Cu

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