[plug] Samba as a PDC

[Walter HILL]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:34 +0800, Chris Watt wrote:
> Still having trouble.
> 
> Have reformatted XP Machine 3 times to try and get it to connect but
> no luck.  Was waiting on a new method but no one got back to me.  If I
> could get hold of a copy of that manual that'd be fantastic.
> 
> ~Chris
> 
According to the SAMBA manual it should be done six times - joking..

I used a Fedora Core 3 box as a PDC. Can the Windows box see the Domain.
Can you "net view" the Linux box from the Windows host?

Interestingly I've just set up an OS X server as a PDC (Apple use SAMBA)
and it worked very well after ironing out a few permission issues.

With the Fedora PDC I created machine accounts first with OS X it was
done on the fly. I can't remember which version of SAMBA came with Core
2. There were specific instructions for creating machine accounts and
the naming convention of the machines.

Have you got name resolution working on your network?