On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > David Teague wrote: > ... > > We do have an all Debian/Windows 9x setup. The Sun serves Win9x > > applications to machines in the student lab. > I believe you use samba on the Sun for sharing the directories; and how > did you set the smb.conf so that the Windows clients don't have to > connect to a NT server for serving the domain? I have read the docs on > samba, but the docs say that smbd can't be used for handling users' > logins. Oki
Right you are. Samba runs on the Sun for sharing; My student tells me that the name service can be done with a WinServer or by broadcast. He says the Sun is doing both. I'm forwarding this to him with the request that he send you the details. Cheers! --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)