On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Will Payne wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any way to 'administer' Samba's WINS database? I'm attempting to > get Samba to take over our NT servers' current functionality so that we > can ditch them entirely. I've enabled WINS support and told our DHCP > server to point at it. Is there any way of viewing it's database to see if > it's working?
That database in in plain text in wins.dat so it's easy to view. Currently there aren't any good admin tools - I need to work on and fix that (thanks for the reminder :-). > Also, our XP boxes connect to a domain which is currently administered on > one of our NT boxes but I want Samba to take over this job. All our users > already exist as system users but I'm assuming I'll need to add them all > again using smbpasswd? And once they're set up, how can I set privileges? > Is there any way to set certain users as administrators? > > Sorry if this is all documented somewhere but if it is, I can't find it.. It's all documented in the Samba HOWTO and ref guide at : http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ Also available on dead trees at a bookshop near you ! :-) Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba