I was browsing through the SAMBA workgroups defined here: E51-CAE, E51-WAAS, etc... everything looked fine (well, with the exception of subnet browsing) until I displayed the properties of the machines in the workgroups. Select a SAMBA host, right-click on the hostname and select 'Properties' from an NT4 machine displays the domain as "E51"; everything from the dash onward is missing... Machines in other workgroups, without 'dashes' display the workgroup/domain properly... Displaying the properties of the NT4 machine itself shows the full workgroup name, with dashes... Should I be concerned? Do I need to rename the workgroups? or is it just a meaningless defect...? -- Bill Neisius <neisius@netcom.com>
List, I sat up and took note at the latest release of samba when it talked about Synching the NT and Unix passwords! However, after reading the documentation I am a little confused. We tried using the smbpasswd concept a while back but abandoned it in favour of the "password server = nt-box" idea as it was simpler. We got around synching passwords from the unix end by using a nt rsh server and few wraparound scripts. However, this isn't the world's greatest method! Is it possible at the new version to use smbpasswd to change both the NIS and remote NT Domain Controller password and still use server level security as above, or do you have to revert to user level to achieve this? Has anybody else tried this? Any information of general comments would be welcome. Best Regards, Anthony --------------------------------------- Anthony Farrow BSc.(Hon.) Systems Programmer Cranfield University, England Tel : (01234) 754200 ext. 2833 Email : a.n.farrow@cranfield.ac.uk ICQ : 9014909 Home Page at : http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/~ccanf "Peace Through Superior Firepower" ----------------------------------------