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I have a NT Server, acting as my PDC I want all my clients to be Linux workstations connected to the NT Server. Is this possible?? any guidelines would be helpfully. -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy the best in Movies at http://www.videos.indiatimes.com Now bid just 7 Days in Advance and get Huge Discounts on Indian Airlines Flights. So

if Win NT is acting as a PDC, and Samba is added in the network, then when would it be required to put security = server when security = domain already exists. in other words why have security = server when security = domain can be put. -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy the best in Movies at http://www.videos.indiatimes.com Bid for for

i get the following error WARNING : no network interfaces found. when i run smbclient or nmblookup etc. the following is the settings in my computer. workgroup = TRIDENTMUMBAI security = domain password server = 10.160.128.152 netbios name = smbsys interfaces = 192.168.1.225 encrypt passwords = yes -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy the

I would like to know what exactly does winbind do.? (i have read the documentation but i am yet confused) prior to having winbind incorporated in samba,there was smb, nmb doing the authentication using samba server on linux. so samba acted as file and print server + authentcation server for windows clients including the NT server. NT Server -----> Linux Server (Samba) mswinclient1

i would like to know whats the difference between security = server security = domain i saw the docs and found that the 'server' does the authentication with and SMB server while 'domain' does an authentication with a NT PDC . am i rite? also isnt it that an NT PDC can act as a SMB server also? -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at

i have added a linux system (acting as a client) in my windows network. but i have to maintain a list of users&passwords using smbpasswd. and if i am accessing a share on the windows terminal i have to specify its password. the vice-versa is also true. so is it possible to eliminate password authentication. regards. --- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at