samba - Dec 2008 - Vista on domain... can Samba join without Administration priviledges?

Hello there,

I have a machine on campus which used to only have Vista. The admins set 
up (in Vista) an account for me on the domain and given me administrator 
rights (on the local machine). Linux/BSD alternatives are 
a no-no here so I did the maverick thing and installed Fedora. But I would 
like to have access to domain resources from my GNU/Linux partition if I 
can (printing is especially an issue).

Assuming I don't know the administrator password on the active directory 
machine and I can't do a:
net ads join -U administrator%password
is there a way for me to have access to domain resources? Assume that my 
kerberos setup (krb5.conf) is fine and I can get tickets.

A pointer in the right direction would do; I can do the legwork myself.
Thanks

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:07:19 +0000, Joe Farkas wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have a machine on campus which used to only have Vista. The admins set
> up (in Vista) an account for me on the domain and given me administrator
> rights (on the local machine). Linux/BSD alternatives are a no-no here
> so I did the maverick thing and installed Fedora. But I would like to
> have access to domain resources from my GNU/Linux partition if I can
> (printing is especially an issue).
> 
> Assuming I don't know the administrator password on the active
directory
> machine and I can't do a:
> net ads join -U administrator%password is there a way for me to have
> access to domain resources? Assume that my kerberos setup (krb5.conf) is
> fine and I can get tickets.
> 
> A pointer in the right direction would do; I can do the legwork myself.
> Thanks
Ok, to answer my own question: I was completely out of touch with what 
needed to happen. I assigned the machine the same IP as in Vista, assigned 
it the same hostname (although I hardly think that matters) and disable 
the firewall settings in fedora which do not allow Samba to work (through 
the GUI). Now, I have access to printers, file shares and so on, and all I 
had to do was input my username/password in the GUI prompts.

Apologies for being ignorant.