On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:03, Kurt Bechstein wrote:> Ok, I'm rigging myself up a Samba 3 PDC for a variety of Windows
> clients. Anything from 98 on up to XP and everything in between. For
> the most part it hasn't been a big deal. I've got a couple of
questions
> I want to run by the list and see if anyone has figured this one out.
>
> My first question is about the [profiles] share. Is this share really
> needed? The documentation never really comes out and says it. I'm not
> setting up roaming profiles so I'm assuming I won't need it.
If you are not using roaming profiles you do NOT need a profiles share. There!
I've said it!
>
> The next question is about password aging. I have a client that would
> like to have the user have to reset their password after 60 days. I've
> seen some inklings online of being able to do with pdbedit, but the
> documentation seems non-existent at best on how to do this. Maybe this
> is also doable with a policy setup. I haven't actually tried that one
> yet so if that works just let me know and I'll dig into that. Thanks
in
> advance.
You can use either the NT4 Domain User Manager to manage all aspects of your
user and group accounts, or you can use pdbedit from the command line.
I am in the process of competing the second edition of the Samba-3 HOWTO.
Apologies that it has not be done faster. I've been working full-time on the
documentataion since January 2005.
- John T.
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The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
Other books in production.