Caution Stoopid Newbie

[Mark Haney]

> For basic networks, Samba 2.0.6 will work as a PDC. There are some
> shortcomings, but I forget what they are, and it hasn't bothered me
> either.  I use uit at home with a network of Win95, Win98 and NT
> machines.  Here is the global section of my smb.conf

Don't listen to this.  2.0.6 doesn't work well enough as a PDC to make it
worthwhile, especially if you are new to this.  When we say it works as a
PDC we mean that samba can act a a central authenticating authority for
Windows NT domains.  In this case it's the Primary Domain Controller. And
unless you have an NT domain, don't worry about it to much.

What kind of environment are we talking about here anyway?  It sounds to me
that if you are asking what a PDC is, you don't have an NT domain.

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Jet Set Willy
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:32 AM
To: samba-ntdom at samba.org
Subject: Re: Caution Stoopid Newbie


> Jet Set Willy wrote:
> >
> > I am runing Mandrake 7.1 (if that makes a difference) and have
> > managed to get samba running quite well ( verion 2.0.6) ie I
> > can see shares copy files from my win98 machine and so on.
> > Works perfectly. Now what I really want  (what I really really want)
> > is to be able to login to the linux box from the 98 machine.
>
> For basic networks, Samba 2.0.6 will work as a PDC. There are some
> shortcomings, but I forget what they are, and it hasn't bothered me
> either.  I use uit at home with a network of Win95, Win98 and NT
> machines.  Here is the global section of my smb.conf

So when you say it works a PDC what does it do for you ?
I've taken a copy of the global sections and will try them
out tonight when I get back home

Thanks !