Hi all,
Many thanks for all the correspondance and help I got regarding this samba
issue: deployment day was today and though it isn't finished (the problem
of changing goalposts) all the networking side of things has worked very
well and was relatively painless.
Port 445 is definately in use, so whilst it seems samba doesn't listen
on it by default it obviously needs to be allowed in firewall setups.
And the printer thingy was fine: no mention of it in smb.conf but all the
win2k machines can see it and it's fine.
So it's now very much confirmed: samba can act as a PDC for a win2k network
and also has logon scripts and roaming profiles working too.
So once again thanks to all who helped out: a real demonstration of the value
of LUGs. :-)
Matthew
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:11:53PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On the recent subject of samba, can I enquire whether there is a WINS
> nameserver on the network that hosts are registering with or are they set
> to the hybrid node type? This can be altered using options in dhcpd.conf.
>
> Graeme, port 135 is used for the Windows Locator (RPC) service and so is
> not purely Windows 9x specific, though the key point some have missed is
> that Windows 2000 onwards use port 445 for TCP/IP based direct SMB
> (which is much better) rather than NETBIOS (which sucks monkeys nads).
>
> The broadcast address is no longer as important nor as relevent in many
> modern Windows based subnetted networks (thankfully - otherwise gigabit
> would be more widespread to handle all that extra M$ traffic). I suppose I
> won't go in to how a certain University wasn't blocking 445 incoming until
> after I moaned about it over the summer, to which I was informed that they
> were in the process of doing it...yeah riiiight :-)
>
> With regard to the printer issue, things should be ok provided the win2k
> box is properly joined to the domain and can therefore handle auths (you
> obviously know about machine accounts already though I would presume).
>
> Ensure you have a recent Samba to overcome the problems with Windows 2000
> SP2 onwards and all of Windows eXPensive. Any further problems please drop
> me a line, sometimes I am known to be wearing my Samba admin "cap".
>
> Jon.
>
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