Samba to replace NT Domain Controller

[K.C. Chan]

Does any one know how to set up samba on RH to replace NT Domain Controller. Thanks.

[Stuart Browne]

You need to tell Samba a few things.

In the [global] section:

workgroup =
domain logons = Yes
logon scripts = \\%n\netlogon\login.bat
domain master = yes
os level = 65

The 3rd there is the next section we need to set up.. The 'os level' is for figuring out with other systems whether it's a PDC or not.

A share called 'netlogon':

[netlogon]
comment = Network Login Share
path = /some/path/to/readonly/login/

In that path, you need a DOS batch file (or possibly an empty file) which does your network login.

On ours here, we map a number of different drives back to the local machine. This is all documented in the Samba documentation.

NOTE: The documentation states that the files should be read-only.

I hope this helps..

[Martin Burnett_2]

Hello Michael,

You can find additional information on Samba here:
Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking
http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN309

Make Samba a member of an MS Windows NT security domain
http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN400

Configure Samba as an authentication server
http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN417

HTH

Martin