Josh Kelley <joshkel at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think that that Samba can serve as a PDC to NT 4.0 > BDCs (or vice versa); the HOWTO says it's impossible, and the > 2.2 release notes make no mention of it. Then it must be 3.0 that Samba can fully replicate to/from PDC and BDCs. 2.2 (and 2.0 IIRC?) offered the functionality of a PDC or BDC, but only with Samba itself. > This is incorrect. Samba 3.0 cannot be a native ADS DC; > that feature will be added in Samba 4. Note I said "replace." I carefully chose that word. I _clarified_ what I meant in another e-mail. > Another advantage of ADS/change in ADS relative to NT 4.0 > is that it uses DNS rather than NetBIOS name resolution and > lets you get rid of NetBIOS completely if you wish. Frankly, I wish they'd move the name services _outside_ of Samba, and to a general layer-2/3 server. > Can't you do the same thing using raw printing, by > configuring the printer in Windows? You'd have to manually maintain the printer drivers, manually setup the PPD (or copy it from an existing), etc... Although this is tolerable with the Adobe Postscript driver, it's still easier to manage it with the Samba-CUPS because everything happens automagically. One major issue with not using a single printer driver in Windows is that vendor printer drivers of the same type (e.g., more than 1 PCL, more than 1 Postscript, etc...) can conflict**. That's why at least using the Adobe Postscript driver solves that (using the vendor's PPD), at least when you have Postscript drivers (or so emulated at the print server). Again, Samba-CUPS setup totally removes this issue because _everything_ goes through the CUPS driver. And everything is automated at the server, including the printer config. -- Bryan **NOTE: I will leave several, "major" office/printer integrator "unnamed," but they regularly come in and just run the vendor's install programs and have drastically "dorked up" the spoolers on my NT/2K/XP systems in the past. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)