Samba Domain Controller Status

[Buchan Milne]

Michael Forster wrote:
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> Hi,
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> > Samba 2.2 will have minimal support for domain logons
> > from WinNT 4/2000.  See samba.org/samba/development.html
> > for a development roadmap.
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> So what does "minimal support" mean? Less then TNG-2.5-GOOD?

Yes.

> [What I need is authentication and roaming profiles.]

This already works in 2.0.7, but there are some minor problems. I am
running 2.0.7 as PDC to about 40 clients (mostly NT 4sp6)

See the samba PDC faq (link posted recently by Dave Brannon)

Buchan
 
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