Enter Linux RH box in Microsoft Win2K Domain

[John CLARK_5]

Dear friends,

In my network there is a DC(Domain Controller) windows 2000.I want to Enter my machine(RH) to this domain.
So what steps should i do :
In my RH machine : edit "/etc/hosts" and "/etc/resolv.conf"
In the DC Windows 2000: I ask the It to Add my RH machine to the domain.

Is these all steps should i make to have my RH machine in the Microsoft domain ?

Thank's a lot.
Best regards.

[renarios]

Hi John,

I think you want to share stuff.
For generic Linux networking tutorials take a glance at this URL: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html
For what you want look here:http://www.cendio.com/files/thinlinc/userguide/html/winauth.html

Cheerio,

Renarios

[renarios]

John,

Maybe a nice tool for you is webmin (www.webmin.com). This is a nice admin tool which allows you to administrate your linux box through a web interface. Don't forgat to secure it off cause.
For Samba there is swat (www.samba.org) to configure your samba configuration.
Good luck dancing with samba ;-)

Cheerio,

Renarios

P.S. Don't forget to read http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

[Gopi Sekar]

Hope these links will be of helpful to you

http://www.freeos.com/articles/3842/
http://www.skippy.net/linux/2000/smb-howto.html

Regards,
Gopi

[Steven E. Protter]

On the W2K box its important to set up a machine account for the Linux box. At that point its relatively easy to use Samba according to the prior links to integrate into the W2K domain.

SEP

[John CLARK_5]

Hi,

thank's a lot for your replays.
I want just that my machine(with linux RH) to become a member of MS Win2K.I have 2 questions about this :

1-Need i Samba to do this ?Or i can do it without Samba?

2-For MS Windows,when i want that a machine to become a member of the domain,i need the Login/Password to do this?,And in my case what must i do?

Thank's.
Best regards.

[Gopi Sekar]

you have to use samba. SAMBA is the only daemon in linux which bridges between linux and windows.

you can give user name and password information in smb.conf in /etc/samba/ directory

Regards,
Gopi

[John CLARK_5]

Hi,

I wonder if Samba is by default installed,or it's a package to select and install it or it's a tool that i must download ?
If it's a tool to download,please give a link ?

Regards.

[Ross Minkov]

Main web site --
http://us2.samba.org/samba/

Current Stable Release --
http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.14a.tar.gz

What is Samba? --
http://us2.samba.org/samba/what_is_samba.html

HTH,
Ross

[Ross Minkov]

I forgot to mention -- check first if you have it installed -- use:

rpm -qa | grep samba

Regards,
Ross