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Hi folks: We have finally solved the problem. We have figured out how to correctly install Samba 3 with Active Directory Support on Slackware (and presumably on any other non-RPM based distro). The howto has been published on my website. Please visit http://www.rongage.org/manual_samba_howto.html for the step-by-step instructions on how to manually install Samba 3 from scratch with Active Directory Support. The instructions are based on Slackware 9.1 but should be generic enough to work on just about any platform. A great many thanks are in order for John Terpstra for his invaluab...

I have a Red Hat 3 AS server I am trying to set Samba 3 up on. I want to use the homes function of Samba and I want user's to authenticate against my AD domain. I am having a problem making the server a member server of my domain. I tried using the smbpasswd command and got the error about trying net join for this action. Also, is there anything else I have to do to get my users to

I'm so close I can feel it :-) I'm having a problem connecting users to their home directories. Under "My Network Places" on XP clients I can see my Samba file server ("Hobbes") just fine. When I double click on it to open it, I get a login/password prompt that I can't bypass even though I try logins/passwords that exist on the ADS server and/or the UNIX accounts.

...cross my active directory domain. I currently have samba 3.0.11 installed and running on a Solaris 9 machine. I can see this server from the network neighbourhood but I get prompted for a password while logging onto any of the samba server. I followed the instructions at http://www.rongage.org/manual_samba_howto.html. One problem I have with the above instructions is when I make the changes to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file passwd: compat winbind group : compat winbind This changes my root login and i need to copy the old nwwsitch file back in. so that passwd points to 'files'. I have...