samba - May 2002 - try Again?: Setting up net of W2K boxes with Samba PDC

OK: Here's my question.
 I am setting up a brand new PDC and network of 
 (ugh) between 20 and 50 win2k clients, and want a samba server.

 I'd like to be able to set this up so all admin is done on the samba
server.

Is this where I would use Winbind?

Can someone point me to a good tutorial?

Users will be in different user groups. and must be able to log on with profile
from any machine.
 Is this a good case for using the ldap db for administration?

 Is there a good "samba/ldap" document out there?
 thanks in advance.
Mitch 

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Adam

At 08:58 PM 5/9/02, mitchbnj_removethis@excite.com wrote:



>OK: Here's my question.
>  I am setting up a brand new PDC and network of
>  (ugh) between 20 and 50 win2k clients, and want a samba server.
>
>  I'd like to be able to set this up so all admin is done on the samba
server.
>
>Is this where I would use Winbind?
>
>Can someone point me to a good tutorial?
>
>Users will be in different user groups. and must be able to log on with 
>profile from any machine.
>  Is this a good case for using the ldap db for administration?
>
>  Is there a good "samba/ldap" document out there?
>  thanks in advance.
>Mitch
>
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