[Samba] Replacing a W2K box with a Samba box

Marteen marteen at lugmen.org.ar
Thu Jun 24 15:55:45 GMT 2004


On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:52:50PM +0100, Alex Forrow wrote:
> Yeh Samba can do all that you want, but I believe you will have to get rid  
> of Active Directory, because Samba cannot host it, only join it. So you  
> will have to use a good old NT style domain.
> 
> You can setup Samba for domain logons, and as long as the adm file is not  
> too new, you can use the NT policy editor to generate .pol files to use.  
> Check out the policies section on my site @ http://forrow.com/nova if you  
> have problems with the new win2k ADM files.
> 
> This setup will allow for roaming profiles to be used, which is what you  
> are looking for.
> 
> Hope this helps

It did, thanks a lot.


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