assalamo alkom wal rahmato allah

what i really need to know is how to make the linux computer a client in a windows 2000 domain and integrate with that domain in every thing including joining the domain , domain password and permissions , any body knows anything please reply

thanx

using samba server and samba client
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what is your config/distro/... etc

Salamo 3alaikom,

You need to read more about Samba. man smb.conf would reveal how to configure. Look at the end of the manpage of smb.conf, it will lead to others man pages to read for proper smb working and configuration.

Salam.

Salamo 3alaikom,

Please see this bunch of search results at google.

http://www.google.com/search?q=smb&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Salam.

what i mean in my post is how to logon in windows 2000 domain as if you have an account in windows 2000 active directory , not to logon only in a local machine , but i want to take the authentication from the active directory

thanx

As far I know there are more than one solution to this problem; it is a single-signon system.

You can check this project http://acctsync.sourceforge.net
AcctSync is the most appropriate solution as u need not to replace ur existing ADS setup.
Other solutions like using SAMBA will replace ADS and make all the authentication from the SAMBA; which is not ur case here.

The AcctSync solution will take u some significant time to do but it will introduce good knowledge of ADS and OpenLDAP

>windows 2000 domain
You need your linux machine to join the windows domain. I hope your PDC isn't in natif mode or you need to configure kerberos, not an easy task :-(
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add s.t. like this:
security = domain
workgroup = YOUR-WINDOWS-WRKGRP
password server =YOUR-PDC-SERVER

Then you join the domain with the following cmd:
net join -S YOUR-PDC-SERVER -UAdministrator%password

For users IDs and passwords, you need to configure winbindd. Please read http://sambafr.idealx.org/samba/docs/man/winbind.html
for details.

Hicham

Did you install the SMBD/NMBD yet? Do you have it? If you do not, you can install it from your Linux Distribution CD or download it from:

ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba

For RedHatters (Red Hat Linux), you can install it as a package (RPM)

Once installed, your binaries should be in:

/usr/bin or
/usr/local/samba/bin

although the location is optional. You should now have "smbd" and "nmbd" binaries. Also, a configuration file for SAMBA is created at "/etc/smb.conf". This is what we'll configure to get the Linux side working first.

pico /etc/smb.conf and start the configuration

i've had the same problem before and i tried a lot of things with samba
but it just seems that samba does not join the 2000 domain easily

the best i could do is to use my user name and pass to access the shares

also i tried to use the domain user and pass to login on linux but doesn't work
i tried the authentication options in RH9 where i do specify the domain controller and it should do the rest but it just doesn't work and even doesn't let root login

i used redhat 9 and now i use fedora core 1

i guess i will give the AcctSync a shot

so any ideas other that the "read about samba"