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I am in need of authenticating a webpage hosted by Apache to an NT domain. Apache is on a linux system running Samba 2.0.6. Is there anything that allows Apache to communicate with Samba for authentication purposes? Ben

I am trying to install Samba 2.0.7 on my RedHat 6.2 system. I recently had Samba 2.0.6 on it, but after reading about the upgrade issues, uninstalled it. So unless there is something the RPM missed, it should be uninstalled. I am building Samba 2.0.7 myself with a GCC compiler (2.95.2), which has no problems. However, after I do make install, the system still will not find smbd or nmbd. Are there

When I try to Ping a server using it's netbios name it reports the following: ping: unknown host 'Tux' (or other netbios name) When I ping it using the IP address, it works fine. I can ping using the netbios name on my 2.0.6 Samba server (on another system). I can't find any relevant messages in the log file as to why this is happening (just requests from other systems to for name

I am looking at installing Samba for use on a production server. I already have it installed on two systems (version 2.0.6), but do not have installed to the point of getting the best performance out of it with what is available. So my question is, what should I (or should I not) install? What version of Samba that is out is the best? I am aware of Samba 2.0.7 is at least decent, is it the latest