Recommendations for production environment?

[Lars Kneschke]

"Patrick J. LoPresti" wrote:
> I have read the FAQs and followed this list for some time, so I know I
> have four options:
> 
>   1) "Just do it" -- Create machine accounts on our 2.0.6 Samba server
>      and hope the Domain Controller support works well enough.
> 
>   2) Use CVS HEAD branch, similar configuration.
> 
>   3) Use CVS SAMBA_TNG branch, same but need to create machine account
>      for Samba server itself and make sure to run the various and
>      sundry daemons.
> 
>   4) Same as (3), but use smbd and nmbd from HEAD branch for stable
>      file and WINS service.
I would use 4.
> First, basic authentication/logon support.  This includes running a
> logon script (is this correct for NT?) to mount some drives from
> various places.  Users need to be able to change their passwords from
> their NT boxes (we have this working on Win98 now with encrypted
> passwords + passwd sync).  I can run this authentication/logon service
> on a machine which does not provide print or file services, as long as
> I can still have profiles and a logon script.

Password changing doesn't work at the moment. But this gets solved.
Logon Scripts and profiles work very well for me.
 
> Second, dialup networking authentication.  NT's User Manager has this
> little checkbox for each user labelled "allow dialup access" or
> somesuch.  I want our NT dialup server to think that little box is
> checked for a set of users of my choosing.  Whether I configure this
> with NT's User Manager or with some manual hack on the Unix side is
> unimportant.  (This is less important than my first need.)

Don't that this will work! But i don't know it. 

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