Re: [seul-edu] windows mac network via linux

[jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>]

maybe, but I've never tried, it has settings for putting it into a wins 
domain, but i don't see settings for making it the domain, though you 
could probably use dave for that.  i don't use windows domains, they are 
too messy and for me too insecure.
Cameron Miller wrote:

> If, however, you want to have a common authentication database, Linux 
> and PAM with the aforementioned samba and netatalk are hard to beat. 
> Can the windows filesharing on appleshareip 6.1 act as a windows 
> Domain Controller?
>
> The Riverdale site still has a good intro to some of this stuff on the 
> linux side:
>
> http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/netadmin/
>
> - cameron
>
> jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>
>> well, not to bust the linux bubble, but if you have a mac server and 
>> appleshareip 6.1or better for the apple server then all you have to 
>> do is turn on windows filesharing in appleshare and you are done nt 
>> can connect just fine.  if you don't have appleshareip then you could 
>> also the linux route.  you could also use osx server for this....  
>> but it is a bit pricey even for education.  other than that, macs 
>> talk to windows clients just fine using dave, and they should have 
>> mactcp or other networking tcp solutions already installed
>> paul wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>  
>>> Where I work we have a room of Apple Mac (performa I think) 
>>> computers. Afaik We have a mac server,  the rest of the site is on 
>>> WinNT (I think) along with NT work stations,  I think the plan is to 
>>> get the macs to talk to the rest of the network. so they can surf 
>>> the net or allow the users to save their work to the main server.   
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