Log into an NT Domain

From: John (johnalarson_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: 28 Dec 2004 15:01:47 -0800

Hello All,

I'm totally frustrated and don't know where to turn. I downloaded NLD
9.0 today and was all ready to start to test it out on some of our
office computers. I am infinitely frustrated, however, in how to join
an NT domain. I have followed all the instructions on the topic, and
ended with the YaST front end for Samba saying that I was accepted into
the domain. However, I can't for the life of me even find the smb.conf
file on this computer, or in any other way determine if Samba is
installed! Also, I'm not sure that even if I get Samba running that it
will solve my problem because what I'm really getting at is being
authenticated when using an intranet website to run a SQL procedure for
inventory and sales queries. The IIS hosted page is looking for NT
challenge/response protocol, and I have no idea where that comes into
play in the Linux setup. Lastly, our NT network uses WINS to name our
computers, and I can't seem to get any info on how to use WINS in
Linux. Oh yeah, is there any way to browse a domain and see the
computers?

I know these are all stupid questions from someone who hasn't read "the
book" but I can't find "the book" any where. I see a lot of
information on Mandrake and RH, but a step-by-step "Domain Security for
Dummies" isn't out there for NLD that has the right directories for
files, etc. Can anyone please, please help me???

1. Make sure that Samba is running. (If I type smbstatus it just tells
me "command not found" regardless of whether I'm logged on as root or
anything)
2. Make sure that I'm logged on to the domain.
3. Browse the domain? if possibe
4. Pass along my authentication to the IIS when accessing web pages
Thank you in advance for your help!
John

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