Using Samba as a Logon Server
Samba can be used to authenticate logons on Windows 9x, NT, and 2000 computers. Windows 2000 must have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled to interact with Samba.
This section gives instructions for setting up Samba to authenticate logons on Windows 9x clients. The version of Samba shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 is not well suited to authenticate logons on NT or Win2K hosts. Those hosts require Samba running as a PDC. PDC functionality is best accomplished with the Samba_TNG version of Samba, which can be downloaded from http://www.samba.org.
Samba can do all of the following:
Replace the Windows client's logon mechanism with centralized authentication.
Supply a logon script.
Centrally administrate per-user Windows profiles. ...
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