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...X servers are running PTC's pdm databases and the NT clients (all having static IP address) are running the pdm client and the UNIX server is looking the DNS server for name resolution. The implementation of WINS should not come into play with regards to my current working environment. I'm comtemplating with the option of requesting them to simply using the lmhost file to reference the machines in my department. Am I looking at the right direction, is there any pitfall I should be aware of? Thanks for any input. Regards Nic

...s.. needing access simply for UNIX file systems AND printers served from the Samba server. NOTHing fancy. My biggest concern is that I want the printer access to be most stable. I probably don't/won't need to take advantage of any fancier features that Samba has. So, to repeat, I am just comtemplating the best release for file serving and print serving ability. 2.2.4? 2.2.5? 2.2.6? Thanks for the help! Bunny Pfau

Hello, I use samba/winbind and pam to authenticate to our Active Directory. I ask pam to create the user home directory on linux when the user does a login. it works just fine but the problem that I'm having is that in the home directory I end up having tons of user homes but they've never logged into this linux system. have you experienced this, any solutions, ideas? thank you. my

I'm planning to try to use Mike Powell's new BOBYQA optimization routine to see if it is a good candidate to eventually replace Nelder-Mead as the optim() default. (Don't panic -- this won't happen quickly.) Mike writes f77 code. After some chasing about, I've realized that because optimization codes need to call the objective function written in R, they need to use a language