Which Samba & How with Win2k

[Ken Cole]

Simo,

Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Is 2.2 stable for a production server?
What do you mean by 2.0.7 can share to win2k?
Can I smbmount win2k shares to 2.06, 2.0.7 or 2.2 Samba?

> > 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.

Do you mean make the Samba server a wins server or wins
client?

Thanks

Ken