[Lias] Domain servers setup

[Phil Scarratt]

Setting smb to be a PDC (primary domain controller) and joining the 
windows workstations to the domain so created will allow windows to 
validate against the linux box. A good source of info on doing that:

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-pdc.html

The Samba PDC will take care of validation and home drives on windows 
side. NFS and NIS can take care of same on linux side.

Fil

Meryon Montgomery wrote:
> Just a quick question, 
> 
> I am looking at setting up a linux box as a domain controller to run in an 
> environment that contains dual boot machines with windows and linux. My 
> question is how can I set that up so that the home drives are available to 
> both operating systems for each user. I assume it would involve using NFS and 
> NIS on the linux side, and samba on the windows side. My puzzle is how to get 
> the windows workstations to validate against the linux server as if it was a 
> NT or 2k server. Once I can do that I think that I have a handle on all the 
> other things.
> 
> P.S. My intended linux distro is Mandrake 9.0