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Am going thru the learning curve on using samba as a primary controller. Samba is up and running just fine. However, I'm a bit confused on the ntlogin.pol thing. I'm gathering, if all the workstations are winxp, I need to do this?? "Go to the Windows 200x/XP menu Start->Programs->Administrative Tools and select the MMC snap-in called Active Directory Users and Computers Select the domain or organizational unit" I don'...

...n to NT Workstations on lan. >From my linux box ( Running Samba 2.0.6 ) I can successfully connect to the remote NT4.0 Wks, but the list of commands that I have access is only regenum regdeletekey regcreatekey regquerykey regdeleteval regcreateval reggetsec regtestsec ntlogin wksinfo srvinfo srvsessions srvshares srvconnections srvfiles lsaquery lookupsids enumusers ntpass samuser samtest enumaliases samgroups quit q exit bye help ? ! I was underthe imm...

..., ending in something along the lines of OK. I'm presuming that much went ok. I added a user on the system (csm) using samedit. 'createuser csm -p test'. It said it went ok. (while I'm talking about that - could anyone tell me what '-i' does?). When I tried running 'ntlogin csmnet2\csm' (the name of the domain is csmnet2, as my old 2.2 domain is still running as csmnet). I am asked for the password, I type in test and I get auth2 challenge failed, unsuccessful etc. That's confuses me, as when I add a machine account and join a computer to the domain, I can l...

Can Samba be used as a complete replacement for a Windows 2000 Active Directory server? I have some vague notion that this can be accomplished by using a combination of OpenLDAP, Samba, MIT Kerberos, and the OpenAFS file system. To say the least, the descriptions I have found have been vague as to whether or not I will be able to completely replace the functionality of an Active Directory server