[CentOS] Samba PDC

Wed Apr 11 12:55:50 UTC 2007
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

Tronn Wærdahl wrote:
> On 4/11/07, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Tronn Wærdahl wrote:
>> > I have Centos 4.4 setup as samba PDC with LDAP, With Xp pro clients im
>> able
>> > to join the domain, but W2k clients allways fails, with some error
>> messages
>> > with wrong username password, even that I use the same username 
>> password
>> as
>> > when joining the XP pro client to the domain
>>
>> I'm surprised it seems to work as well as you seem to think it does. The
>> best I would expect to work is an NT-style PDC; if you want AD
>> functionality then best you shell out the shekels for Windows 2003
>> server and do the training.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>>
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> 
> 
> 
> Im not sure how I should interper your answer, get windows training .......
> ???  :-) Basicly im look for somewhere I could store some files, and with
> the samba PDC I allso go the opertunity to run centralized logon 
> scripts. Is
> there a differense in the way XP and W2k joins a domain

There is a considerable difference between a domain as it was for OS/2, 
win9x/me and Windows NT and the position now.

Then, for example, one could have a PDC and one (or more I think) 
secondary and/or backup domain contoller. Now, one can have hierachy of 
domains spanning the world. Then, domains didn't scale. Now, they scale 
quite well, and one can even have a local domain controller for, say, 
London when the gloabl catalog (held by the principal DC) is in, oh, New 
York.

Now, bear in mind that in the first instance you didn't actually give 
out much info about what you are trying to achieve or why, what you have 
tried or what your specific errrors are.

Probably, you need to enabile WINS server in Samba, specify
domain logons = yes
logon script = logon.cmd
maybe these:
    logon drive = H:
    logon home = \\%N\%U

and read closely what you need to do to make XP and 2000 talk to NT 
domain controllers. Your prospects of emulating a Windows 200{0,3} 
domain controller are fairly remote.



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Cheers
John

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