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Hello, I am currently integrating 20 workstations and 5 Servers (all Dell Products) running Red Hat 7.2 (2.4.7-10) into a Windows 2000 / NT Enterprise network of about 2,000 users. I have been using a Samba server (version 2.2.1) with "security=domain" so that any user with a W2K domain logon can access the Samba file server. However, I want to move into full integration and set up all

Since i've gotten so much help from this list with my samba issues, i've been trying to be active and help others, but heres my question. If I reply to someone, should I send it JUST to the mailing list, JUST to the person i'm helping, or both? I've been keeping it on the mailing list, but some people may want the help to come into their main mailbox. Should I send to both?

First of all hello to everybody on this list. Question 1: I?m having a little (?) problem with winbind. To be short here is the situation: Runnign w2k AD on native mode. Linux box is Red Hat 7.2 with 2.4 kernel. Authentication from my W2K Active Directory server fails. I get following outputs with commands--> wbinfo -t --> secret is bad 0x000001 wbinfo -u --> Error looking up domain

Is there ever going to be an updated smb.conf to reflect the new options availible with the latest versions? I'd like to see (commented out of course) the options to activate winbind, along with some more information about domain membership. theres also some stuff currently in there that's been deprecated (domain controller) and theres even tons of options for each share (like oplocks,

I can actually answer this one. Windows 2000 and higher NO LONGER USES WINS. While 2000 server does still include a WINS server component, 2000 clients no longer (mostly) use them. They now use the active directory DNS for all resolution instead of WINS. I'm a bit out of my element, but I've had my WINS get hosed before, and I never knew until somebody with win98 called and said they