Hello, I am interested in building a linux server for my network, I want this server to act as a router, serve a couple printers and files, and what my question is, act as a logon server, at my school , they have is setup so there is a windows logon prompt, with username, password and where to loginto, you cannot use the computer unless you connect to the the network, everyone has there own user name and password, once you connect to the network you are allowed to use the internet and run programs, and you also have your own little amount of space on the servers Hard drive no one else can access, is there anyway to use samba or another program to achieve this? At school I know they use windoze NT server, but can linux be used since i want to run an older box and i also don't want to be plagued with all Micrsoft's problems, Thanks in advance
bluedude2288

Take a look at this howto:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenti...way-HOWTO.html

The scripts are a bit basic and you may want to make them a bit more advanced.

OK, I tired what that document said and many other documents, and I changed the registry keys in windows xp, but in XP it keeps saying "A domain controller for HOME could not be connected." but I have samba running and its setup for the domain HOME, why can't i get it to work?

heres my config File, I have tried many differnt options on the windows xp machine but still no luck, same problem, please any suggetions,


[global]
netbios name = LINUX
workgroup = HOME
passdb backend = tdbsam
os level = 64
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
security = user
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\homeserver\%u\winprofile
logon script = logon.cmd
[netlogon]
path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
read only = yes
write list = ntadmin
[profiles]
path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
read only = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700

add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u

when i run tcpdump i see this ALOT!

00:11:23.573640 192.168.0.176 > 192.168.0.103: icmp: 192.168.0.176 udp port netbios-ns unreachable [tos 0xc0]

tome that looks bad, is it?

Are you running windows XP clients only? What version of samba are you running. I have modified your smb.conf slightly. The changes I have made are bolded.

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[global]
netbios name = LINUX
workgroup = HOME
passdb backend = tdbsam
os level = 64

preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
security = user
domain logons = yes
encrypt passwords = yes

wins support = yes

logon path = \\LINUX\profiles\%u
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\LINUX\%u\winprofile
logon script = logon.bat

[Homes]
path = %H
valid users = %S
read only = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700


[netlogon]
path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
read only = yes
write list = ntadmin

[profiles]
path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
read only = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700

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The wins support = yes will make samba a wins server. You should then set the clients wins address to that of the samba server either statically or using dhcp. If you already have a wins server on your network, you should omit the wins support = yes and add wins server = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the xxx..... being the ip address of a machine on your network running wins. Wins will definitely help with resolving issues. The [Homes] share dynamically shares user home directories. Just make sure when you create accounts, you put the client's home directory path.

Make sure both smbd and nmbd is running.

Hope this helps.

I tried this, still no luck same message, what else could be the problem?

OH, and I am using only windows XP Professional clients and Samba 3.0.0

Do you have a firewall running on the Linux box? If you do, disable it and try again.

I'm pretty sure i don't, how do i check, I'm still kinda a newbie

thank you so much! The firewall was the problem, but now I have another question, when i type in my username, and I type in my password, it pops up and says the username or password is bad, why? I added a machine trust account.