Caution Stoopid Newbie

[McEldowney, Michael]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Haney [mailto:mhaney at info4cars.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:28 AM
> To: Adam Lang; samba-ntdom at samba.org
> Subject: RE: Caution Stoopid Newbie
> 
> 
> > But the point is Samba 2.0.7 CAN do central authentication. 
> One Samba
> server
> > that all file servers, email servers, squid servers, etc . use for
> > user/password authentication.
> 
> 
> By acting as an NT PDC perhaps?  I still stand by my original 
> statement
> 2.0.x isn't stable enough to do that.  Believe me, I tried 
> for over a month
> one time to do that and never had enough uptime to feel comfortable.

My Samba server has been in the PDC role since it was installed, and
I've had nothing but uptime.  In fact, the last downtime I had was to
upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7.  Been running well ever since.  I'd say
that is very stable.  Maybe you weren't configuring correctly.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Adam Lang
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:17 AM
> To: Mark Haney; McEldowney, Michael; Jet Set Willy;
> samba-ntdom at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Caution Stoopid Newbie
> 
> 
> But the point is Samba 2.0.7 CAN do central authentication. 
> One Samba server
> that all file servers, email servers, squid servers, etc . use for
> user/password authentication.
> 
> <snip>
> > And your statement that samba is not peer-to-peer is very 
> obviously wrong,
> > unless you are doing authentication from some central 
> mechanism such as
> NIS
> > or an NT domain, you are running a peer-to-peer network.  
> YOu can run
> samba
> > outside of an NT doamin and have the client auth to it just 
> fine. I do it
> at
> > home.  So get your facts straight before you flame anyone.
> 
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