[Gllug] Linux To MS Networking

[Jim Bailey]

Hi

Samba is the way to go it does both a file sharing and a PDC for M$ 
networks with Netatalk you can support Macs too.  Turn your linux box into 
the DHCP server, ISC do a nice one, it will handle all clients including 
any guest macs or other 'nix.  Read the documentation carefully (yeah, 
yeah, yeah I know do as I say not as I do) ;-)

Take your time backing up the relatively simple config files so you can go 
back to them.

It is not a hard job even I can do it. :-)

Peace Jim

On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 04:48 PM, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just built a stable linux config (& resolved my mice problems) and
> need more help :-)
>
> I currently run an NT (or rather Win2K) domain at home and would like some
> relatively easy to understand advice (bearing in mind I'm not yet
> particularly linux literate) on networking.
>
> There are two parts to this.
>
> Basic linux networking ... my Win2K server ios currently running as a DHCP
> server yet my Linux box is not picking up an address ... I could hard code
> an IP address in but would rather not.. Is there anything else I shoud be
> doing (on the server or the linux workstation) that can make this work. It
> works fine with MS clients (Win & DOS) so I assume the changes needed are
> on the linux box and, at present, I have no idea how to proceed.
>
> Secondly how do I map read/write shares to my domain controller. Someone
> suggested Samba as a solution which I plan to investigate and I have found
> a couple of web-sites that offer utilities that do this ... haven't tried
> them yet.
>
> There's one other thing I'd like to ask (and I'm guessing no matter which
> way I ask it some will take umbrage so I might as well go for it) ...
> PLEASE if you plan to suggest something along the lines of getting rid of
> NT/2K then don't ... I really would appreciate helpful advice not
> evangelism :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
>
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