Hello:
Mahesh Kumar wrote,
>
> > What exactly do you mean by a "PDC" for Linux hosts? Central
> > authentication or the ability to support "domain logons" with remote
> > user profiles and stuff?
> Yes, I mean the second one. The setup I wanted is a single samba
> server by which the windows machines can share the files from other
> Linux machines too.They should be able to see all the Linux hosts in
> the network neighborhood and share files with them.
> Is this kind of setup possible ?
Yes.
- Run Samba 2.2.4 on your Linux server and configure it with the
following functions:
- PDC
- WINS Server
See How to Configure Samba 2.2 as a Primary DomainController:
http://sg.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#SAMBA-PDC
- Configure all your windows clients to use this PDC for domain logons
and also use the PDC as the WINS server.
- On all the Linux workstations, Install and configure samba to
function as a "domain member" server in your domain ( security =
domain). Also set the "password server = " and "wins server = "
option in smb.conf to the IP of your Samba PDC.
See: security = domain in Samba 2.x
http://sg.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#DOMAIN-SECURITY
- Create local UNIX accounts for all your domain users so that Samba
can set the ownership and permission right on the files. One way of
avoiding the creation local accounts is to use LDAP or NIS.
There are some hacks in smb.conf for automatic user creation on
logons. Look at the "add user script" param in smb.conf
Once you have added all the Windows clients and Linux workstations
running Samba in "domain member" mode, all the machines will appear in
Network Neighborhood. The Linux servers will behave just like a NT
workstation when windows user tries to access a share located on it.
We are currently running a similar setup over here with my FreeBSD
-CURRENT workstation running samba-3.0a17 with LDAP lookups in "domain
member" mode. My domain is controlled by Samba 2.2.3 running on RedHat
Linux.
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