Windows 2000 and Linux

[Kenneth Noel]

Martin Radford wrote:

> > The current version of Samba only supports mixed mode domains at this stage
> > (domains controlled by NT 4.0). There is however work underway to build
> > support for AD in Samba so that it will be able to participate in a Native
> > Win2K domain. This might take a little while still (expected in Samba v3.x)
> > but stay tuned...
>
> This is incorrect.  Samba servers can be added to a native mode Win2k
> domain, where they act as downlevel NT4 servers (i.e. using Win2k's
> backwards compatibility NetBIOS layer).
>
> On the other hand, Samba cannot behave as a domain controller in a
> native mode domain, and doesn't have AD support per se.
>
> Martin
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I don't thing thats right...  I was told that a native mode domain cannot have
any win9x, NT, or Samba systems in the native mode domain unless they are
running the active directory client.  Since samba does not have a active
directory client nor native to active directory I dont think it will work.

You can have NT 4.0 domain with trust to a native mode domain and have members
of the nt 4.0 domain login to the Win2k/active directory domain, that will
work.  That is how our domain structure is or will be setup.

Ken
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