debian woody has samba version 2.2 this acts fine as a PDC and can authenticate users, provide home directories and shared directories. using a login script these network drives can then be assigned to drive letters when the users log in.
command is like - net use /home H: roaming profiles also works fine. i have set this up with a bunch of win98 clients. then i installed postfix and courier-imap so that the users could pick up their email. roaming profiles works fine so that users who logged into a different machine could pick up their own email - of course, using imap means that all of their email is actually on the server. (the first time a user picks up email from a different machine they have to enter the email and server account details - but after that it is 'remembered' the best book for this is the o-reilly samba book - i followed the instructions in this book and they worked fine. of course - if you use sarge of www.backports.org you can get samba version 3.0 which has active directory services and much more functionality. HTH, kev Gabriel Granger wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been asked to move our domain from NT in to the linux world :) > naturally Debian of course. I would like advise if anyone has does > this on the best way to do this. The server will need to have some smb > share available and would love to be able to migrate the fax server > which in its current state is crap... you have to physically go over to > the server to look at incoming faxes and then print them (I dont allow > my users VNC type access) I would however like if possible to be be > able to somehow send and receive faxes from the desktops....does anyone > know if there are any great apps for such a task? bear in mind that I > have w2k, SuSe and OSX desktop clients. I guess the only major thing > is how to get the user login details out of the NT4 server and import > into the linux server? i really want to avoid a manual process if > possible > > Many thanks > > Gabe > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
