> Hi, > Are there folks out there using Gentoo as a workstation on a Win NT > 4.0 domain? What are you experiences? Samba, file sharing, printing, > etc.? What are you doing about virus protection on files you download > but store on a Windows server? > > I'd really like to dump XP Pro but don't think I can solve this sort > of stuff on my own. I'm not an IT guy, but we're a small company and I > have control of the NT servers, so I can do what I need to do on both > ends to make it work, short of getting rid of the NT servers. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > - Mark
I used samba as a domain controller in my home network a couple of months ago. It worked great, but two things kinda seemed odd or stumped me. One, how to convert my current local profile on windows to a remote profile. I ended up having to start with an entirely new profile, hence losing all my settings and having to manually redo all my preferences. I googled around for converting local to remote profiles, but not with much success, as far as I know its not possible. Second, the file permission confused me. To enable things like read-only on the windows files, samba needed to use mixtures of permission in linux. That meant a lot of files had permissions of 777. For my home network it's not a big deal, but it didn't make sense. Doesn't that mean any linux user could delete any file. Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
