Samba PDC

[DaveHope]

Hello all,

Been playing around with sama acting as a PDC and for the most part, it works well However I have a few queries:

1: Windows 9x (and NT4 Workstation?) only required a user account to be present on the PDC, Windows 2k and above need an account for the system and an account for each user. Creating accounts for systems is somewhat tedious, I've read that it can be automated so that whenever a system requests to join a domain an account is created for it (no shell or home dir etc..), does anyone know about this and how it might be achieved ?

2: How can I map a network device to a drive letter ? - net use <path> <drive> at a guess, but how does one automate this? - I know there's a script (in netlogon which can be called at login by the client, but what format are they in (Batch file?) and how do I set one up for every user?

Thanks all!

[Falador]

I use samba with LDAP so it my be a little different. To add a machine automatically add the 'add machine script' line to your smb.conf. It will go something like this:

[Lajasha]

For auto mount just use either a batch file or vbs file, either will do the job quite nicely. Not sure what you mean by "net use <path> <drive> at a guess", you will know the name of the shares and the name of the PDC and that is all you need.
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[eikketk]

Check http://www.idealx.org/prj/samba/smbldap-howto.en.html
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[DaveHope]

Falador, thanks. Added it - Will add a test machine when I return home to see if it's working alright

maletek - hrm, Will do that then

Finally, does anyone happen to have USRMGR & Poledit at hand? If so, would you mind putting them in an archive and sending my way ?

Thanks !

[JeroenV]

Hi,

For poledit, just download a win2k servicepack from M$ and extract it on a windoze pc: