February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Samba in a Windows NT Domain
When operating in a Windows NT domain, Samba can act either as a primary domain controller or as a domain member server.
Primary Domain Controller
Setting up Samba as a primary domain controller is more complicated than the other configurations. However, the extra difficulty is offset by having a more secure network and additional features such as logon scripts and roaming profiles. In the following configuration file, we also include support for a Microsoft Dfs share:
[global] # Replace "toltec" with the hostname of your system. netbios name = toltec # Replace "METRAN" with the name of your Windows NT domain. workgroup = METRAN # Run a WINS server wins support = yes # Always act as the local master browser # and domain master browser. Do not allow # any other system to take over these roles! domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes os level = 255 # Perform domain authentication. security = user encrypt passwords = yes domain logons = yes # The location of user profiles for Windows NT/2000/XP. logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u\%m # Users' Windows home directories and storage of Win95/98/Me roaming profiles. logon drive = G: logon home = \\toltec\%u\.win_profile\%m # The following line is optional because # Samba always offers NetBIOS time service. # This causes it to also be advertised: time server = yes # The logon script used for all users, # Relative to [netlogon] share directory. logon script = logon.bat # The group identifying administrative ...
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