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...m currently in need of turning my old Server into a data tank I don't want to buy another copy of server 2k or 2k3 I would like to use Linux and samba how ever I'm not sure if samba will work in an Active Directory Network or not can any one clear this up for me? Thank you, Marc Ford mford@bbmusa.com

could someone please give me the lowdown on samba and passwords? i keep trying to connect to any share name on either of my unix boxes, either from each other or from a win95 machine... every time i can't get anything due to passwords... does samba have it's own password file? from trial-and-error it seems that it doesn't read out your /etc/passwd file for user's home dirs...

I am trying to read in a list of users from a file and automatically create users from that. Here is what I thought would work: #!/bin/sh cat /mnt/PDC1-UsrSync/user.diff | while read Foo; do useradd $Foo; done Contents of the user.diff file: dccut dclam dcprep dcshp But here is what I get when I run the script: > sh test.sh useradd: invalid user name `dccut ' useradd: invalid user

We installed Samba server on a Alphaserver 4000 and we are connecting with a Win NT client Our server name is "ALPHASERVER4000" our client name is "PC3" we arrived to test 10 and problem is still alive. We can see with the NT browser "ALPHASERVER4000" but if we double click on it a password is requested. We tried with Regedit with all this options. Run regedt32.exe

can someone please tell me why everyone else can connect to my samba server but me? I mean I even went as far as installing a new OS ("down-graded" back to win2k). I really need help trying to figure out why. If someone can help me in figuring that out, please let me know. And by the way...I already tried the router thing....same issue. So the router doesnt matter because I disabled the