Samba w/ Windows 2k3 AD

[klnyc]

Heya guy,

We're runnign RH9, Im thinking running Samba as well. Now my concern is, can samba see Windows 2k3 LAN? My office have 8 Win2k3 server and all is running Active Dir. I was looking at the samba config, its say about "workgroup" on the config area. Now, since its a workgroup, how can I able see my samba from my windows lan or vice versa? Any tips or hints appreciated.

[DMR]

Samba can work in an Win 2k domain environment, although I don't know if there are any Win2k3-specific issues.

AD/Kerberos support is an evolving facet of Samba; newer versions of Samba will intergate more tightly and have fewer "gotchas" in this area than older versions.

There's a wealth of information concerning Samba in a Win domain in the lastest Samba 3 HOWTO (http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/). Give it a good read; it should answer many of your questions.

:)

[PNash]

Yeah, it works great in a Windows 2000 or 2003 enviroment, I work in a Company that was 100% Windows before I got there and I have implemented Linux to take over some of our file/print server roles. Redhat is kinda nice because on the start menu there is an icon that says "Network Servers", if Samba is setup right you should be able to browse your network through there, it's almost like "My Network Places" in Windows. You can also open Konqueror or your favorite file manager and type in SMB:\\domainname (type in your domain name at domainname) and it will browse that workgroup or domain. Also, for your machines to see the Linux box if it has shares make sure you enable Netbios over TCP/IP on the Windows Machines. As far as AD support look into Winbind, it's a pain to setup but it will allow your windows users to access shares on the redhat box by AD permissions and vice versa. Also make sure your running a newer version of Samba, we tried using the 2.x versions and they didnt work as well in a Windows domain as 3.x does.

[DMR]

Originally posted by PNash
we tried using the 2.x versions and they didnt work as well in a Windows domain as 3.x does. Yeah, if you look at the changelogs on Samba's website you'll see that the're really putting a lot of development effort into that area in 3.x.

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[klnyc]

Wow......guys thanks for the reply. Guess what? i got it to work. I was too lazy using the CLI, so I went and use the GUI (typical windoze users :D ) on my RH9 and every thing went shhweet. So, here's the run down. I got my VNC,Samba, and Apache running. You guys probably seen my post about VNC, I been fighting with this nearly 2 weeks and now I got pack down :)

Ok enough, I have one more request. How do you make a public folder on my Linux box? What I have done for now its everything is using admin home folder. I dont want that. Please, any help are welcome.

thanks

[DMR]

Originally posted by klnyc
How do you make a public folder on my Linux box? What I have done for now its everything is using admin home folder. I dont want that. No, you don't :eek:

Check out O'Reilly's Using Samba (http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/using_samba/). Chapter 4 discusses setting up shares, and the rest of the book has a lot of good info on other facets of Samba.

:)

[klnyc]

Thanks DMR!

[DMR]

You're welcome klnyc!

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