Re: [cobalt-users] NIS

["Nathan Martinez" <nathanm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I figured out how to tell smbmount what machine is the pdc.  Needed to add
the -D switch.  oops.  I think that I can slowly get what I need from here.
Thanks for your help.

-Nathan Martinez
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Dahl" <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] NIS


> 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
>
>
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