[PLUG] SAMBA and windows 2000...

[Ted Kubaska]

My home network is also a workgroup (XP Pro and Linux (which is a dual boot
between Linux and XP Pro)). I do not use Active Directory. In fact you need
a Microsoft server like Server 2003 or the older 2K Server to run Active
Directory and manage a domain.

I puzzled sharing files with Linux a while back and wrote up what I found
(samba, active directory, primary domain controllers, LDAP, WINS, etc.). I
understand I cannot attach a doc to this mail. If you want to reply off this
mailing list to tkubaska at ieee.org, I'll send the file to you. Cannot
guarrentee it will help but Windows and Linux can work well together...well,
depends what you want to do, but they share files just fine.

Has PLUG ever had a talk on Windows/Linux interoperability?

 -Ted


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Len Icks
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:30
To: General Linux discussion and assistance
Subject: RE: [PLUG] SAMBA and windows 2000...


Technically you don't need active directory on a 2000 pro workstation as
long as you have it a member of a workgroup, when you make 2000 a member of
a domain it uses active directory, which requires a 200X domain controller.

I cant really give you any tips on security for this set up as I usually
keep my samba pretty simple.  I have my samba server as a member of a
workgroup (which should be the same name as the workgroup on your 2000
PC) and have my security level set to user.  This lets me share folders and
printers between my 2 different OS's with minimal difficulty.

Another alternative is to move to samba 3.X, which has more features for
integrating AD and samba together in a domain type environment.

Sounds to me though like you are looking to just do some home network
sharing.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Darkhorse
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 9:28 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] SAMBA and windows 2000...

I'm trying to get samba 2.2.8a to work with Windows 2000 where 
I'm running into something called Active directory.  Apparently 
it requires a strange DNS setup where I use Bind 8.4 from ISC, 
not Windows 2000 Server.  

I want to get 2000 networked with non Windows 2000 computers.  
Can active directory be completely disabled or am I stuck with it in 2000
professional?

I can use some dns and samba tips for Windows 2000 professional.

The only other alternative I can think of is Windows 2000 on top of Linux
and don't network it.  That would be a pain though, printing etc. would be
difficult.  I don't even know if Windows 2000 can run in vmware.  As far as
Mapinfo, 
MyFamily.com, TurboTax, etc. I'm wondering if Windows is
even needed anymore?

Windows 2000 pro locks up on my network and has trouble finding other
computers.  I've tried to set up a samba 2.2.8a primary domain controller,
but I keep getting dns errors when I attempt to switch the network
identification from workgroup to domain.  
My smb.conf is attached for the samba based PDC I tried to set 
up.  My domain is called domain01 and I did a dns A record
for this.  Microsoft's site says something about SRV records. Does Active
Directory mean that you have to do dynamic dns even if you don't want to for
security reasons?

     Michael C. Robinson


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