Which Samba & How with Win2k

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Ken Cole wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I am a newbie on the list and a newbie to Samba but have a
> fair bit (16 years) Unix and Linux (3 years) experience.
>
> I have a site with a Win2k PDC and a Redhat Linux 6.2 server
> with Samba 2.0.6.  I need the Linux server to be a BDC for
> the domain.  Can this be done?

No, It can't be done at this point.
Samba 2.2 can be a PDC also for win2k and samba 2.0.7 (not 2.0.6) is able
to share files to win2k.

> If so with which version and what are the primary smb.conf
> variables I need to set?
>
> I have tried a number of settings but none even allow for
> the
> linux server to be "seen" when doing a Find-Computer on a
> Win98
> workstation.

To have the best resoults, use a wins server and make all machines
register with it.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken
>
>

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