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On 22 Apr 2002, at 12:20, Brendon Schafer wrote:
> I have a small Windows network at home, with different flavours of
> Windows running (95, 98 and NT4 Workstation).
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> My NT4 box is acting as a file server and a login server. (I
> obtain the permissions for the shares from this machine).
In NT parlance, a true "login server" is a "domain controller", and
only NT Server provides that function. (In this context, a "domain"
is a group of networked computers sharing account/security
information, as opposed to a workgroup where only resources are
shared.)
Someone else has already suggested Samba, the Unix/Linux
implementation of SMB, as a tool to get your Linux box playing nice
with the Windows boxes.
It gets better: Samba can be configured to act as the domain
controller. So instead of trying to find a cheap copy of NT Server
that is still available, you can implement a "real" domain AND get
your Linux box to play along.
David Gillett
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