Windows 2000 and Linux

[Gerald Carter]

Kenneth Noel wrote:
> 
> 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.

Martin is correct.  Trust us on this one ok.

> 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, You only need a mixed mode DC in WIn2k if 
you have WinNT4 BDC's.  By default, a native mode Win2k
DC still provides NetBIOS and NTLMv1 support.







Cheers, jerry
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