[Samba] NT Domain vs DNS

[John H Terpstra]

Rick,

Suggest you refer to the book "Samba-3 By Example". It's available from 
Amazon.Com for those who practice the cult of the dead tree. For those who 
prefer electronic copy, refer to:

	http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf

Each of chapters 1-5 covers a complete network - and walks you step-by-step 
through the entire deployment.

You should also read the NT4 migration chapter - best done together with 
Chapter 5.

Enjoy!

- John T.

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 14:04, r.m. dukester wrote:
> Please forgive newness here.  Have accepted job as
> network administrator coming from a helpdesk type
> position.  One task in front of me is upgrading
> an NT domain.  I want to use Samba to replace it, and
> have been reading the Howto, FAQ's etc.
>
> The current NT domain is a singularly named "WMHS"
> left over from before organization got a dedicated
> Internet connection.  Now they have a dedicated
> connection and their own domain name, let's say
> "wmcare.org", but it is not used inside the internal
> network (NAT inside a firewall); it is simply for
> email addresses hosted at our ISP.
>
> My question is:
>
> Assume I move to a Samba PDC to replace NT PDC and
> start using LDAP.  LDAP requires "real" DNS server
> internally.  How does this affect users who have
> Win2k/XP and Control Panel->System->Domain->"WMHS"
> entries?  Will those have to be modified as well to
> "wmcare.org" and reflect what new Samba server
> uses?  Or can they be left as "WMHS".
>
> I guess my question really is must the domain that
> Samba uses be the same as what the DNS entry is?
>
> Thank you for replies.
> Ric Feris
>
>
>
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