[Gllug] Samba PDC

[Chanka A. Perera]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:24:00 +0100, neil <neilcuk at aol.com> wrote:
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> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 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

good document to share with if you guys already just ignore.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/tutorials/samba/

Chanka Perera
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