Easy SAMBA question...

TheRealDeal · 10-21-2003, 09:37 PM

Hello.

I have a server with a SAMBA network share. Can I use a normal DOS network boot disk to be able to connect to this server as I can with a MS share?

My scenario is, we have a Windows 2000 Server box that is set up with a share. The company I work for creates Master Hard Drive images, then boots of a DOS network boot disk and uploads the image using Symantec Ghost.

We are moving our servers to Red Hat soon and want to know if there will be any problems.

Thanks alot for any help on this.

Regs
Craig

nhs · 10-22-2003, 07:37 AM

Samba provides an almost complete implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol (Backup domain controller functionality and Active Directory support is missing) but DOS should be utterly incapable of telling the difference.

TheRealDeal · 10-22-2003, 04:59 PM

Great!!! Thanks for the reply nhs!!!

Have a good one,

Regs
Craig

MaverickApollo · 10-22-2003, 09:21 PM

does the new version of samba not have ADS support? I am sure I read it did.

nhs · 10-23-2003, 04:12 PM

I can't say for sure but I think I've read the same somewhere. Active Directory Service and Backup Domain Controllers were the two main shortcomings in Samba 2 versions and I am sure I've read that these have now been sorted.

TheRealDeal · 10-23-2003, 11:13 PM

Hello again.

One more question if that is ok...

I can map a drive in DOS, when I use the TCP/IP protocol and this command (net use z: \\server\share) It maps and works fine.

If I connect using the NetBEUI protocol, it fails, saying it can't find the server. Is there anything else I need to add into my smb.conf file to be able to connect to the server using NetBEUI? Some of our newer notebooks only support NetBEUI under DOS.

Thanks for your help again.

Regards
Craig

rajbaxi · 11-05-2003, 11:15 AM

The closest thing that Samba has to AD support is authenticating against a Radius or LDAP server I believe. Nothing that's implemented natively to Samba itself. Samba 3.x is really pushing the LDAP based authentication.