[CLUE-Tech] Samba Workstation?

Mike Staver staver at fimble.com
Sun Sep 5 11:35:16 MDT 2004


Thanks - I can send you all my config files if you want for what I have 
- and all I can say is that it did work fine initially, so maybe you can 
get yours to continue to work.  I'm thinking about reinstalling and 
starting over just to see if I can do it again.

David L. Willson wrote:

> 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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