samba - Apr 2002 - Question on samba as PDC and fileserver

For a project I am working on I have to configure a Redhat 7.2 server as the
file server and PDC for a small company network of 12 workstations and a
couple of network printers. The client was happy to have a Linux server as
it will provide IMAP, DNS, and tape backup of the email and home
directories.
My question is, how well is Samba working as a PDC, how should I configure
the network so that Samba authenticates the users and provides name
resolution for the Windows machines.
Anything else to be aware of, any gotchas?

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On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 16:09, Chris Mason wrote:
> For a project I am working on I have to configure a Redhat 7.2 server as
the
> file server and PDC for a small company network of 12 workstations and a
> couple of network printers. The client was happy to have a Linux server as
> it will provide IMAP, DNS, and tape backup of the email and home
> directories.
> My question is, how well is Samba working as a PDC, 
it works great - it's just missing the domain groups in
2.2.3a
>how should I configure
> the network so that Samba authenticates the users 
add the users to the unix machine and to smbpasswd (see the howto
collection)
>and provides name
> resolution for the Windows machines.
Just enable wins support, and feed it to the clients in your dhcp
configuration.
> Anything else to be aware of, any gotchas?
follow the howto and you should be fine -
if the clients are XP or W2Ksp2 learn about the signorseal reg change.

brad