[H-GEN] Samba and Windows XP

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Fri Jun 25 10:05:23 EDT 2004


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, James Mills wrote:

> The school already has a PDC (Windows 2003) domain that each of the
> Windows XP machines log on to...
>
> The big picture is to install Debian onto a server and have it run in
> the school and to provide students with a login to it from the Windows
> XP client along with things like a "H Drive" that they can easily
> access.

Why can't it be a member of the existing domain and allow auth through
that?  It doesn't need to be a PDC or BDC, just an application/file server
from the sounds of it.

No need for a seperate domain that I can see (or maybe I'm missing a
vitial piece of info).

Rob

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