Re: [Samba] Windows XP Home accessing a Samba PDC
Thanks to everyone for your help, I've got some useful suggestions there to try out. Thanks again! Hopefully, this will be enough to stop them migrating the server to Windows, at $ENORMOUS_COST. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Windows XP Home accessing a Samba PDC
A friend of mine has asked me a question in my role as biggest local geek (for very small values of local). Googling hasn't turned up an answer, so does anyone here know if this is possible? At his business, they had a mixture of XP Home, XP Pro and Win98 machines accessing a Samba server with security=user. The server has one big everyone-read-write drive and a few smaller areas restricted to a few users by the valid users directive. This isn't at all secure though, and means whenever a person gets a new computer they have to mess about matching the username and password with the Linux server. It is also becoming a pain to manage as their network grows, and as they have now removed all the Win98 and all except two of the XP Home clients, they are wondering about switching Samba to become a PDC. This would allow them a lot more flexibility in terms of permissions on the share, even without ACLs. Obviously, the XP Home machines will not be able to log into the domain. However, is there any way to allow them access to the public everyone-read-write anyway, even though they are not in the domain? Thanks for your help! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Windows XP Home accessing a Samba PDC
Richard Gaywood wrote: A friend of mine has asked me a question in my role as biggest local geek (for very small values of local). Googling hasn't turned up an answer, so does anyone here know if this is possible? At his business, they had a mixture of XP Home, XP Pro and Win98 machines accessing a Samba server with security=user. The server has one big everyone-read-write drive and a few smaller areas restricted to a few users by the valid users directive. This isn't at all secure though, and means whenever a person gets a new computer they have to mess about matching the username and password with the Linux server. It is also becoming a pain to manage as their network grows, and as they have now removed all the Win98 and all except two of the XP Home clients, they are wondering about switching Samba to become a PDC. This would allow them a lot more flexibility in terms of permissions on the share, even without ACLs. Obviously, the XP Home machines will not be able to log into the domain. However, is there any way to allow them access to the public everyone-read-write anyway, even though they are not in the domain? Well yeah. Give them an LDAP account. Use the map network drive function on the xp home box, and check reconnect at logon. Enter uname/pword in dialogue box. Make a shortcut to the mapped drive and put it in the starup folder. When user reboots the login dialogue will pop up when the startup folder is accessed by the system. It's sounds clunky but it should work. TMS III Thanks for your help! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Windows XP Home accessing a Samba PDC
Obviously, the XP Home machines will not be able to log into the domain. However, is there any way to allow them access to the public everyone-read-write anyway, even though they are not in the domain? Your XP Home machines will function just the same connecting to a pdc as they do now with a non-pdc machine. You can still access your network shares and such so long as the usernames match and either your passwords match or the user is ok entering the different passwords. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Windows XP Home accessing a Samba PDC
One way of doing this in XP home is to map the drive. As you know, XP home is not built for a role as a domain client, but will do workgroups just fine, with no security. Because your drive that you want to access from XP home is read/write everyone, you can just map the drive and make sure you check the box that says reconnect at login. Also make sure the XP home machine is part of the workgroup. For example, if your domain is DOMAIN1 then just joining the xp to the workgroup DOMAIN1 hope I understood your question and hope this helps --mark - Original Message - From: Richard Gaywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 9:49 am Subject: [Samba] Windows XP Home accessing a Samba PDC A friend of mine has asked me a question in my role as biggest local geek (for very small values of local). Googling hasn't turned up an answer, so does anyone here know if this is possible? At his business, they had a mixture of XP Home, XP Pro and Win98 machines accessing a Samba server with security=user. The server has one big everyone-read-write drive and a few smaller areas restricted to a few users by the valid users directive. This isn't at all secure though, and means whenever a person gets a new computer they have to mess about matching the username and password with the Linux server. It is also becoming a pain to manage as their network grows, and as they have now removed all the Win98 and all except two of the XP Home clients, they are wondering about switching Samba to become a PDC. This would allow them a lot more flexibility in terms of permissions on the share, even without ACLs. Obviously, the XP Home machines will not be able to log into the domain. However, is there any way to allow them access to the public everyone-read-write anyway, even though they are not in the domain? Thanks for your help! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
