Re: [cobalt-users] NIS

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/20/00 2:13 PM, Nathan Martinez at nathanm@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I do not really need to have smbd working (or do I?).  I just need smbmount
> working (I want to get to NT resources from the raq but not vice versa).
> How can I tell smbmount which machine to authenticate with (the pdc)?  Any
> ideas?  thanks.
> 
> -Nathan Martinez
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kris Dahl" <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Nathan Martinez" <nathanm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] NIS
> 
> 
>> on 1/20/00 1:45 PM, Nathan Martinez at nathanm@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>> I have tried this and after a ton of trial and error..... only ended up
>>> being able to connect to my pdc.  None of the other nt servers would
> allow
>>> me to connect.  I believe that this is due to my raq not officially
> joining
>>> my nt domain.  I have tried doing this as I have done before with other
>>> machines....but I could not get it to work with the raq2.  Also, I have
> seen
>>> reference to NIS on my redhat machine at home.  Are you sure that it is
> only
>>> for Solaris networks?  Any words of wisdom on how I can get all of this
>>> working?  Why is samba better than NFS (a question that I have yet to
> get
>>> any kind of answer on)?  thanks for your help.
>> 
>> Samba seems to be much easier on the machine (i.e. doesn't require nearly
> as
>> many resources).  The Raq should be able to join your NT domain... Have
> you
>> tried SWAT (Samba Web Adminstration Tool)?

I remember that we had this working once about 2 years ago on a Slackware
Machine and NT Server 4.  So it can be done.  I don't know if you need smbd
up and running, but I believe that smbmount and smbmnt both use the same
configuration from the samba.conf.  So it is kind of dependent on the same
configuration.  I might give this a shot myself and let you know if I get
anywhere.

Whoops--I don't run a NT Domain anywhere anymore, so I guess I can't really
try to duplicate your settings.  I'll look into it a little bit, however,
and let you know if I uncover anything.

-k