Dear All
Let me start by saying that this is the second mail that i have written and
i have not found anyone who could help me out.
Here's My PROBLEM:
The company I ma working for us willing to phase out it's windows servers.
We are using Windows 2000 servers for file and print sharing. we also have
an exchange server for our intra & external mails.
My exchange server is my PDC and ofcourse i would like to go in for 3
Linux Boxes as my additional Domain controllers. And use my Windows PDC
(Running Exchange 2000) for mails exchange.
My company has a strength of 350 users. Could anyone out there give me
clear instructions as to how to go about.
Thanks in advance
Pondiboy
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> My company has a strength of 350 users. Could anyone out there give me > clear instructions as to how to go about.Well, I'm sure someone will come along and give you a precise description of how to go about configuring Samba for that purpose. I can't really provide specific help but I will recommend you print out and keep a copy of the SAMBA project documentation handy as it contains many explanations and howtos that may help you. Provided the document hasn't been rewritten since I got my copy, you'll find documentation for joining a Samba server to an NT domain as well as information regarding how to adapt that process for 2k domains on pages 37-38. (edit: I've checked and its now page 43-44 in the printed document, they've added a new section on mapping CUPS printers to windows shared printers - page 48-49 in the actual PDF) It can be found in the SAMBA documentation section listed as the Samba-HOWTO-Collection. http://au1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf> _________________________________________________________________-- "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Hi, If you have Windows 2000 or XP clients than you are getting into troubles as these clients work better if you use "encrypted passwords". Samba can't process an encrypted password and hands it over to a Windows 2000 server for verification. If you don't have them any more than you must patch the registry in every client to give a non encrypted password to the Samba server. And the clients, Win 2k & XP, doesn't like that and give a login screen every time it wants to connect to a Samba share. If you have Win 98 clients than you don't have these problems.> The company I ma working for us willing to phase out it's windows > servers. > We are using Windows 2000 servers for file and print sharing. we also > have > an exchange server for our intra & external mails.Best regards, Kees
I agree with Don, [global] encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd -----Original Message----- From: Don Zajic [mailto:donald.zajic@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:17 AM To: 'Kees Damen'; samba@lists.samba.org; pondiboy@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [Samba] Phasing out windows I must disagree with you. Samba does handle encrypted passwords. I have been using that feature for at least two years if not longer. I have had WinNT, Win2K and WinXP clients authenticated by my samba server for a long time. The Win2K systems are pretty straight forward, the WinXP clients do need a patch to the security, but that is easy to apply. Don Zajic Samba 2.2.7a (Domain Controller) Clients, WinNT, Win2K and WinXP -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Kees Damen Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:28 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org; pondiboy@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Samba] Phasing out windows Hi, If you have Windows 2000 or XP clients than you are getting into troubles as these clients work better if you use "encrypted passwords". Samba can't process an encrypted password and hands it over to a Windows 2000 server for verification. If you don't have them any more than you must patch the registry in every client to give a non encrypted password to the Samba server. And the clients, Win 2k & XP, doesn't like that and give a login screen every time it wants to connect to a Samba share. If you have Win 98 clients than you don't have these problems.> The company I ma working for us willing to phase out it's windows > servers. We are using Windows 2000 servers for file and print sharing.> we also have > an exchange server for our intra & external mails.Best regards, Kees -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:40:06AM +0000, pondiboy - wrote:> Dear All > > Let me start by saying that this is the second mail that i have written and > i have not found anyone who could help me out. > > Here's My PROBLEM: > > The company I ma working for us willing to phase out it's windows servers. > We are using Windows 2000 servers for file and print sharing. we also have > an exchange server for our intra & external mails. > > My exchange server is my PDC and ofcourse i would like to go in for 3 > Linux Boxes as my additional Domain controllers. And use my Windows PDC > (Running Exchange 2000) for mails exchange. > > My company has a strength of 350 users. Could anyone out there give me > clear instructions as to how to go about.You may be asking in the wrong place. Try http://us1.samba.org/samba/support/ Jeremy.
When you untar the source file, you will have a file called WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg in the following directory /samba-2.2.7/docs/Registry In XP use the Start Menu, Run and in the dialog, run this file WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg and it will make the necessary changes to your XP registry to allow you to have the WinXP machine join the Samba domain. This is a requirement and this is the "patch" I mentioned. Don -----Original Message----- From: Brett [mailto:brett@smart.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:45 PM To: Don Zajic Subject: Re: Phasing out windows What patch are you referering to. Also the samba 2.2.7a release specifies a change of requiresignoreseal=0. What is that for and is that really needed. Thanks, Brett P.S. I had problems when I tried to change the passwords to unencrypted and am using the server with encrypted passwords. "Don Zajic" <donald.zajic@verizon.net> wrote in message news:000001c2d821$965af920$6701a8c0@hawaii...> I must disagree with you. Samba does handle encrypted passwords. I > have been using that feature for at least two years if not longer. I > have had WinNT, Win2K and WinXP clients authenticated by my samba > server for a long time. > > The Win2K systems are pretty straight forward, the WinXP clients do > need a patch to the security, but that is easy to apply. > > Don Zajic > Samba 2.2.7a (Domain Controller) > Clients, WinNT, Win2K and WinXP > > -----Original Message----- > From: samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net@lists.samba.org] On > Behalf Of Kees Damen > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:28 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org; pondiboy@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [Samba] Phasing out windows > > > Hi, > > If you have Windows 2000 or XP clients than you are > getting into troubles as these clients work better > if you use "encrypted passwords". Samba can't process > an encrypted password and hands it over to a Windows 2000 server for > verification. If you don't have them any more than you must patch the > registry in every client to give a non encrypted password to the Samba> server. And the clients, Win 2k & XP, doesn't like that and give a > login screen every time it wants to connect to a Samba share. > If you have Win 98 clients than you don't have these > problems. > > > The company I ma working for us willing to phase out it's windows > > servers. We are using Windows 2000 servers for file and print > > sharing. > > > we also have > > an exchange server for our intra & external mails. > > Best regards, Kees > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
At 18:14 19/02/2003 +0000, you wrote:>On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:40:06AM +0000, pondiboy - wrote: > >[snip]> > My exchange server is my PDC and ofcourse i would like to go in for 3 > > Linux Boxes as my additional Domain controllers. And use my Windows PDC > > (Running Exchange 2000) for mails exchange.While you do that PLEASE kick Exchange out if you can. Postfix + Courier-IMAP + OpenLDAP will do exactly the same ( and it's FREE, like beer and freedom ) It you *absolutely* need the "collaboration" features, you can try Ximian's Connector.> > My company has a strength of 350 users. Could anyone out there give me > > clear instructions as to how to go about.Google for "Postfix + MySQL + Courier-IMAP" and you will find a buch of HOWTOs ( can't remember exact URLs right now )>You may be asking in the wrong place. Try http://us1.samba.org/samba/support/ > >Jeremy. >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba