On Sonntag, 29. Dezember 2002 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, >
Good morning ! > Sorry for asking the most repeated question again. Just because I could not > get a proper guide for doing this. Can anyone please tell me how to make a > linux system running samba server and client to connect ( log on to ) to a > windows2000 based domain and act as a part of it ? Any useful link also > would do. This is quite well described in the SAMA Project-Documentation on the SAMBA Website. It's the chapter 12 in PDF, page 75 ;-). http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/ and have a look for the Samba Howto Collection (it is only a german mirror, the doc remains in english) Basically : - create an machine account on the WIN2K PDC (I never used a Win2K server, so maybe this is done automatically) on the samba (thus "client" side) - setup the smb.conf in order to have winbind uig and gid up - join the domain (it is smthg such as smbpasswd -j THE_DOMAIN -r THE_PDC) - start winbindd - check wether it works with wbinfo (please have a look on the man pages) I do not know if you will have this problem (I had) - pay attention to your hosts file on the samba server - maybe you will have to setup a wins server (I really do not understand why I had to, but after that, it worked just fine). One last word : since I do not (enfin, my company) own Win2K server (guess why ;-) ) the PDC was a Samba > > thanks in advance :-) > If you need some further assistance, just ask ! > senthil Regards, Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\_// (. .) Powered by SuSE Linux 8.1 -------------------------------------------oOOo-oOOo-------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
