October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
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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