Hy people, There is a friends company, that uses windows XP as a server to share directories, i am going to change it for a linux box, with Samba, and run a pdc domain with it, its a simple configuration with 13 computers and the only thing that they have to get w0rking, is passwd policys, they need that each month they have to change passwd, it has to be at least 8 characters long, etc .... I have read there are some new directives in samba and you can do this kind of things, but i cant find much docs that talk about it, anyone has tried it out?, any docs they can share?, is it working in samba 3.x?, is it a good idea to make a samba a domain controller?. Thnx a lot!!
Miguel Da Silva - Servicio de Informát
2006-Aug-18 18:41 UTC
[Samba] How would you setup this config with samba
daniel parkes wrote:> Hy people, > > There is a friends company, that uses windows XP as a server to share > directories, i am going to change it for a linux box, with Samba, and run a > pdc domain with it, its a simple configuration with 13 computers and the > only thing that they have to get w0rking, is passwd policys, they need that > each month they have to change passwd, it has to be at least 8 characters > long, etc .... I have read there are some new directives in samba and you > can do this kind of things, but i cant find much docs that talk about it, > anyone has tried it out?, any docs they can share?, is it working in samba > 3.x?, is it a good idea to make a samba a domain controller?. > > > Thnx a lot!!Probably you'll have to also change the password each user have in the backend. And Samba is a very good solution to implement a PDC. Will you use single sign-on (SSO) and roaming profiles? Sometimes I have a little problems with that, but is concerning the Windows part of the configuration. Good luck. -- Miguel Da Silva. Servicio de Informatica. Facultad de Ciencias.