Which Samba & How with Win2k

[Greg J. Zartman]

I am currently using Samba 2.2 alpha3 in a low volume production environment
and it works wonderfully.  Much better, in fact, that the Win2k server that
it replaced.  If you are into all of the admin bells and whistles, you may
be a little disappointed, but the performance is great.

Regards,

Greg J. Zartman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simo Sorce" <simo.sorce at polimi.it>
To: "Ken Cole" <ken at satsof.com.au>
Cc: <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: Which Samba & How with Win2k


> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Ken Cole wrote:
>
> > 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?
> The branch is still marked as alpha software, but someone just use it in
> production. You may give it a try.
>
> > What do you mean by 2.0.7 can share to win2k?
> Samba versions previous than 2.0.7 may have problems serving files to w2k.
>
> > 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?
>
> If you have a wins server make the samba server register himself
> see wins directives in smb.conf(5)
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ken
> >
>
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