Installing on Mandrake 8.1 Suggested Reading

[Buchan Milne]

Sylvestre Taburet and I are working on official updates for samba-2.2.2 
on Mandrake 8.1, but we have one outstanding issue, namely XFS quotas 
(which  should work from the samba side in 2.2.1a-15mdk as shipped with 
8.1).

In the meantime you can grab the current RPMs we are working with at:
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/samba/samba-2.2.2-mdk81/

These RPMs are compiled with XFS-ACL support, so you can use and 
manipulate ACLs on XFS from winnt/win2k boxes. The /etc/samba/smb.conf 
file included has most options required for PDC use (including profiles 
and netlogon shares, working add user script, sample configuration entry 
for using ntlogon - see RPM in contribs), just commented out so the 
average user doesn't take out his companys PDC by mistake ;-). I think 
the only useful parameter that does not have an example, is domain admin 
group:
domain admin group = @domadm root
(where domadm is a unix group of domain admins).

I have tested these RPMs on my home box, but not on our production 
machine yet (not yet running an XFS capable kernel ....)

There is also some updated documentation on Mandrakeuser.org:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/csamba6.html
Which covers some of this, including registry changes to allow joining 
of Windows XP.

Regards,
Buchan


Soon I will be installing a test box to learn Samba 2.2.2 PDC on. It will be
running Mandrake 8.1 Linux. What are the suggested readings for installing
2.2.2 (over top of what Mandrake comes with, or unselect it when installing the
OS?), what to download, setting up the Domain, making the Win2K clients happy,
yadda yadda...

TIA!

Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/


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