[Gllug] Samba PDC

[neil]

Craig Millar wrote:

> I am intending to replace our old windows NT domain controller with a 
> samba version under Debian. User authentication is done with an ldap 
> server on the same box. Thus far I have had a reasonable amount of 
> success and my two test client (windows 98) are authenticating and 
> picking up the policy file on the linux box, config.pol.
>
> Thus far I cannot see any errors in my samba nor ldap logs when the 
> machine logs in and all seems alright with the world. The problem is 
> that neither 98 machine appears in Network Neighborhood, only the 
> server is available. The windows 98 boxes are both setup for the 
> correct workgroup/domain and are not appearing in the old domain. They 
> can access each other via nbtstat and can browse each other's 
> resources using \\machine-name. 

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It's been a while since I've worked hands-on with any windows stuff - 
but I seem to remember that the Network Neighborhood only depicts those 
[win9x] devices which have some resource to offer - particularly file 
and printer sharing. The problem isn't with SAMBA, although you may want 
to investigate the option of using your SAMBA server to maintain the 
master browse list - but not while it lives on the same network as an 
existing windows-maintained windows domain - I seem to remember hearing 
this can cause issues if an election is forced.

neil

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