[plug] smb

[Adrian Woodley]

Would it be possible to write a protocol driver with win32 to give it
support for NFS and NIS? Then you could use these two open standards,
rather than chase the MS tail all the time.
  I realise that getting the Win32 networking API might be a bit tricky,
but it would make it a lot easier to surplant NT as a file/logon server.
Novell managed to do it and linux is far better than Novel (IMHO) :)

Adrian

Ben Jensz wrote:

 >Which accounting software was that?  Accounts department here uses the
 >latest version of Quickbooks (which I think is 8).
 >
 >Could it run from a user who is in the "Adminstrator" group instead of 
Power
 >Users?
 >
 >
 >/ Ben
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "James Bromberger" <james at rcpt.to>
 >To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
 >Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:22 PM
 >Subject: Re: [plug] smb
 >
 >On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:42:44AM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
 >
 >>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.
 >>
 >
 >Agreed. This is the issue that I have lost about a week on trynig to get a
 >Windows Accounting Software package to work; it needs "Power Users", and
 >Samba can only give "Users" or "Administrators". Yep, only two groups
 >available. This is, as Tony said, a known issue; its mentioned throughout
 >the samba-technical mailing list archives. If you can live without
 >Power Users, as I am trying to do (track down registry keys and change
 >their security on each machine, plus path permissions), then you should
 >be fine. But most users should only be "Users" anyway.
 >
 >>I recommend the current 2.2.2 tree of samba, it rocks.
 >>
 >
 >*nod*
 >  James
 >
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