[plug] smb

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Ben Jensz wrote:

> On the topic of Samba and Win2K... does Samba work with Win2K to the extent
> that Win98 does.. as in can you do domain logons (PDC functionality) and the
> like to serve Win2K pro clients.  I currently do that with a network of
> Win98 machines using plain text passwords, but we are going to be getting a
> whole of new computers soon and I'm thinking of getting Win2K on them for
> the added stability.  I'm guessing that I'd have to revert to using
> encrypted passwords on teh Samba server.  Anyone?

Yes with samba as a PDC you can do domain logons.  win2k will drop back to
"legacy mode" and treat the samba box as if it were NT 4.0.  You have almost
all the features needed to run the environment.  The main one that is lacking
is the equivilent of "Power Users".  I'm not a samba expert so I don't know
why it can't be done.  I just know that it isn't available in any version of
samba.

I recomend the current 2.2.2 tree of samba, it rocks.

Yours Tony.

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