[plug] NIS from an NT machine to Linux

[Richard Sharpe]

At 05:04 PM 7/7/00 +0800, Phillip Steege wrote:
>Basically this is the desire:
>  1. Have a Linux system which will provide the NT box with the user account
>information that will allow someone to login on the NT box.

OK, that is easier to do.

You want Samba to be a PDC and have your NT Workstation box be a member of
the domain and do logons ...

You can do this with some limitations under Samba 2.0.7. It works, but does
not support everything you need.

This is documented well in Special Edition, Using Samba (in the warehouse
in the US on 18-Jul-2000).

You can also do it with Samba TNG, but Samba TNG is a harder beast to tame.
However, Samba TNG does even more than 2.0.7 does, and works with Windows
2K.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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