On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:03, Kurt Bechstein wrote: > Ok, I'm rigging myself up a Samba 3 PDC for a variety of Windows > clients. Anything from 98 on up to XP and everything in between. For > the most part it hasn't been a big deal. I've got a couple of questions > I want to run by the list and see if anyone has figured this one out. > > My first question is about the [profiles] share. Is this share really > needed? The documentation never really comes out and says it. I'm not > setting up roaming profiles so I'm assuming I won't need it.
If you are not using roaming profiles you do NOT need a profiles share. There! I've said it! > > The next question is about password aging. I have a client that would > like to have the user have to reset their password after 60 days. I've > seen some inklings online of being able to do with pdbedit, but the > documentation seems non-existent at best on how to do this. Maybe this > is also doable with a policy setup. I haven't actually tried that one > yet so if that works just let me know and I'll dig into that. Thanks in > advance. You can use either the NT4 Domain User Manager to manage all aspects of your user and group accounts, or you can use pdbedit from the command line. I am in the process of competing the second edition of the Samba-3 HOWTO. Apologies that it has not be done faster. I've been working full-time on the documentataion since January 2005. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba