The main thing for PDCs is to READ SEVERAL DOCUMENTS. All of them approach it from a different direction, and assume that you already have some things configured which you may not. So, read several, and then do your own thing. Here's some URLs:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba6.html http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba.html?t=gr,l39a=Samba (have to register for the tutorial) http://www.freeos.com/articles/3842/ Search around for more, there's a lot of them. In addition, if you want to make your users REALLY happy, you can use your Linux box to let them all print to PDFs from any application. See these articles: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html http://linux-sxs.org/networking/PDF_creation_using_Samba.html You may want to play with the ps2pdf options a bit. Search the web for distparm.pdf to see what switches do what. Or you may just want to leave them at their defaults. Jon On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Harish Sabnani wrote: > Hi Jon > > Thanks a ton for response,will appreciate if you can send me some links > about how Doamin Controllers work in Linux so that I can have a broader > understanding. > > Regards > > Harish > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Bartlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:22 PM > Subject: Re: Domain Controller in Linux > > > > > I know this is something silly, but it will help me clear my confusion > > > that I have about DNS and Domain Controllers thanks to Windows > > > Networking Styles. > > > > DNS and Domain Controllers have nothing to do with each other. > > > > You may be confusing DNS with name resolution in general. DNS is only one > > method of resolving names. For example, in Linux, there are several ways > > to resolve names: > > > > * /etc/hosts > > * DNS > > * NIS > > > > In Windows, there are also several ways to resolve names: > > > > * \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS > > * DNS > > * SMB > > > > My guess is that your question is how does SMB name resolution work. > > Basically, with SMB, your Windows clients send out a broadcast request on > > their local LAN segment to get the names of all of the computers on that > > segment. With this, it does not matter if a domain controller is present. > > It also doesn't matter what IP addresses the clients have. If you have > > their name set up in their "Network Identification" tab, no matter what IP > > address they have, when someone broadcast queries them, they will report > > their assigned name. > > > > So basically, you don't need to do anything with Linux or DNS to get the > > Windows computers to talk to each other and recognize each other's names > > on the network. All you need to do is set up a DHCP server to assign > > everyone an IP address, and do IP masquerading. > > > > If you want to set up your server as a domain controller as well, you can, > > but it still has nothing to do with name resolution, which is handled by > > the SMB protocol, not DNS. If this is what you want, let me know, and > > I'll pass you some links. > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
