update2 of the Question.
I'm changing this 'section' of the thread just to keep it small. .
I'll try to make a documentation that will make sense 2all after i made it work for me . Hopefully, that is
samba as a PDC with w_2000_clients.
I've created a machine account in slackware 10.2 for the user root using samba 3.0.20.
The story goes like this.
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I try to log in to my domain fom the W_200_client
And i do get a 'password_Q' from the PDC,
whereupon i give it my machine account/root password.
Then my PDC starts to check and my W_2000_client hangs for some time, finaly it ends with an RPC compaint
(Remote Procedure Call complaint).
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It was just a missing 'userscript'for 'machines' in the smb.conf...
'add user script = ...machine...´
The funny thing is that i could'nt find any referrals to that in the mannuals/books that followed the Samba installation ???
Q_1.
Anybody know why, did i just miss it or was it something that you only was supossed to be needing for earlier versions of samba ???
The machine park will be 32 W_2000_clients with static IP,
the same goes for the PDC. There are no subnets.
I wont need any printer configurating from the PDC
as the W_2000_clents all connect locally
via a static ip_nmbr that belongs to the printer.
Ahh btw, the idea is like this, after i've made the connection via my machineaccount, then users will be able to log in directly 'on the fly' from any client/workstation that i've installed via the machine account, and, if i got it right, dynamiccly create users 'home' etc.
At least that's the idea
---ok--solved----
Q_2.
I really would like to avoid the [printers] section totally, but i don't seem to have any choice there. As far as i've understood it?
.
---don't need to have it ---
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So ok, now i got it working as it should with W_2000
But then i want it to work with 'poledit?' so i can manage policyfiles for Windows from the server.
And i think that the slower machines should connect thru
Slackware instead of W_2000.
But i still don't really understand how i should configure
Slackware_Linux Workstations to work as seamlessly as my
W-2000 against the PDC ( that is, thru Samba )
'on the fly accounts' etc.
So anyone with experience of this ?
Feel free to suggest.
So any and all suggestions are of value...
Thanks Yoron.