winnt administration

[Iulian Ciorascu]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul J Collins <sneakums at eircom.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: winnt administration


>>>>>> "Hayden" == Hayden Wimmer <hwimmer at bakerref.com> writes:
>
>    Hayden> the domain controller is linux/samba.... so when the nt
>    Hayden> arrived and the boss is favoring it...i dont want us to
>    Hayden> fall into microsoft's clutch any more than we already
>    Hayden> are...
>
>That is almost certainly a 2.0 version of Samba.  That version of
>Samba has extremely incomplete domain controller support.  It's
>definitely not recommneded for use as a production domain controller.
>
>If you want full domain controller support, you will have to use
>Samba-TNG.  I'm not sure which alpha version would be the best for you
>to try.

    I use samba-tng-alpha.1.6 as a PDC and only with netlogon service. As a
file, homes, profiles, printing server I use a samba-2.0.6 domain member in
the same linux box. It works well with Win9x, W2k.

    Best wishes,
    Iulian