[CLUE-Tech] Samba Workstation?

[David L. Willson]

Mike, if I get it, I'll let you know.  But I have the feeling that this
is a gremlin-ridden process that is going to take some time and
practice...

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 00:54, Mike Staver wrote:
>  From what I understand, it can - but as you can see by my last posts to 
> this list I can't get it to work with Samba 3.0.X, damn it.  I've tried, 
> and tried, and tried - and I'm going to say it's almost more hassle than 
> it's worth.  I think I sent out my post over a week ago, and I still 
> can't get it to work with messing with it for about 2 hours a day for 
> the last week.  I'm trying to get Samba to authenticate against Active 
> Directory on Windows 2003 server, and it *was* working fine - and then 
> over last weekend, it magically quit working and I can't get it to work 
> again.  I've run every test people can suggest, and everything checks 
> out just fine, so I don't get it.
> 
> David L. Willson wrote:
> > One of the nice things about a Windows domain is that any user with a
> > domain account can log in to any workstation on the domain.  Further, a
> > user can be terminated on the domain, and will be unable to login to any
> > workstation on the domain.
> > 
> > Can this be reproduce with a Linux workstation on a Windows domain?
> > 
> > I have an existing Windows-based network infrastructure, and would like
> > to "seed" the building with Linux boxen, but in order to do so, I will
> > need some way to centrally manage accounts, and preferably, allow my
> > users to use their pre-existing accounts.
> > 
> > Where do I start?
> > 
> > Thanks y'all.
> > 
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