Topic: e-smith as PDC?

[Dan Brown]

I've seen a couple posts to the effect that e-smith acts as a Windows Primary Domain Controller even when people don't want it to, but it doesn't seem to be working that way for me, and I'd kind of like it to.

I have a Windoze 2000 client that can access the server just fine if I tell it I'm using a workgroup.  If I tell it to join a domain by the same name, it says it can't find a domain controller.  The "Domain Master" setting in the e-smith-manager is set to "yes."  Am I missing something, or should I just not be trying to do this in the first place?

[David Sawtell]

Have you loaded the e-smith-netlogon-0.1-1.noarch.rpm available from the links to these pages.

It supports the Domain logons and Netlogon.bat. worked fine for me.

The only difference I find is that the shares are still available to machines that do not logon but which supply a valid password.

Hope this helps.

[Scott Duncan]

Um.. Bad news guys.

Samba will NOT do domain authentication for Win2000.

You can browse shares and such but Win2000 will not authenticate, nor will it run a login script.

The SAMBA-TNG project is working on this as you read this (Info about this is at www.samba-tng.org).

All other versions of NT will work just fine.

I have done a few test-compiles with only marginal success. Not ready for prime-time just yet.