Mike Branda wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:32, Mike Branda wrote:
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>>Anybody set up samba as a M$ Domain Controller yet?? I have a localnet
>>dns server set up and the Linux and Mac boxes are all good but Windows
>>wants the Primary Controller set up. I have read a few howto's and have
>>a working smb.conf that I am about ready to try. I just wanted to get a
>>heads up from anyone who has already done it that might have the scoop.
>>I already have a few samba servers doing file sharing only as part of a
>>"workgroup" so I'm familiar with samba. Just not the PDC aspect. Any
>>tricks to the profiles and user presets/permissions?? Can it be used
>>for auth only and not Desktop profiles and such??
>>
>>Thanks in advance!!
>>
>>Mike Branda Jr.
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>Well, strike one. I kicked all the guys in the office out, hup'd one of
>my samba servers with the modified conf and tried to set a windows XP
>client. After selecting the domain box instead of workgroup and adding
>the local domain, it spewed an error complaining that it couldn't
>resolve _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.mylocaldomain.lan. Added the entry in dns
>to the proper samba server, and it complained that there was no dc on
>that machine. any ideas??
>
>thanks.
>
>Mike Branda Jr.
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Hey,
When I still had a good amount of Windows Machines on my network, I had
used Clarkconnect (clarkconnect.com) to kinda setup a PDC server.
Theres some info/howtos in thier forums on setting one up (on
clarkconnect 2.2 you have to hack it to setup a true PDC on it), which
had/s some useful info in it. The only thing i could never get 100%
right was roaming profiles, but I havent touched it in about 4-5
months. I hear that other custom firewall/sama servers out there are
able to set up PDCs quite easily, point and click like thru a web gui,
altho none of thier names come to mind at the moment, all I can suggest
is google and a few minutes googling PDC server, distros, firewall,
suites, etc to find out about any of them, if I remember any I will post
to the list. I hear that the newest version of Clarkconnect (3.0) which
is still in beta, should have a web gui to set up a PDC as well, which I
also havent tried yet. Hope some of this info can help somehow.
Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
sigtom@sigtom .com
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