Re: Samba Shares & Windows 2000

From: Whitey Johnson (whitey_at_newmail.net)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:12:48 -0600

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:21:42 +0000, Steven Liburd wrote:

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>>
>>
> I'm using Samba as a PDC. This may be my problem? I've read that, for
> Win2k, I need to set up a machine account on the Linux box in order for
> the Win2k box to join the domain. I've never been able to get this to
> work, though. I'm able to join the workgroup, though, which seemed to be
> just as good for my purposes, but perhaps not...?
>
> How can I get the machines to join the domain?
>
> ==steven

I don't use Samba as my PDC so I haven't tried it but check out this
article:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-02/samba_01.html

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