On Saturday the 23rd March 2002, Matthew Sackman spaketh:
> 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.
Samba tends to always rely on Windows supporting "legacy" implementations
- it doesn't do AD and other things that arguably a W2K implementation
needs, though we've had this in an "argument" before I believe :-)
> 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.
Then it's shared without security restrictions or somesuch?
> 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.
Let's hope so, I have been supporting several W2K based Samba PDC'd
networks for a year now and hope to offer further support as/when the
"Easy Penguin Ltd." venture gets sorted out sometime soon...the only
issues I have is over the general problem of implementing ACL's with Samba
and the lack of "Microsoft Active Directshit".
> So once again thanks to all who helped out: a real demonstration of the
> value of LUGs. :-)
Let us know how it goes, look forward to seeing you in April, if you come.
Jon.
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