[Samba] Re: secretly replacing a windows domain client with samba

Joerg Lenneis lenneis at wu-wien.ac.at
Sun Jan 19 19:51:01 GMT 2003


Jim :

>> You have it slightly backwards: Samba is an SMB/CIFS file *server*,
>> not a client, so all deliberations about secrets.tdb do not
>> apply. There is a Linux client filesystem implentation available
>> (smbfs) but that will not allow you to join a domain.

> Samba's winbind will. :-)


Yes, but does that affect smbfs? To the extent that the Linux box can
then participate in the domain as a client?


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Joerg Lenneis

email: lenneis at wu-wien.ac.at




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