Subject: Re: Linux Fileserver in Windows Environment
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 10:38:23 AKST
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Jason Jeremias wrote:
> Well its pretty easy to use Samba to act as a PDC, works very well for
> 98 clients, however someone correct me if I'm wrong here but I thought
> WinXP Home couldn't be used in a NT Domain environment? I have 95, 98,
> NT 4, 2K, and Win XP pro all working at various sites but I've never
> tried XP Home. I have several clients using Samba PDC's by far the
> largest amount of problems are in the Printing Environment. Getting
> Samba & CUPS to play well doing MS Point and Print (IE downloading and
> installing print drivers on the client) is the real problem. Point and
> Print seems to stop working properly at times for no particular reason,
> if you don't intend to utilize point and print then its great. Samba
> has some great features that I only wish Windows had, I make use of root
> preexec on the netlogon share to call a Python program which
> automatically generate user login scripts. This is a sweet feature,
> when used correctly its better than Netware Login Scripts.
Neither Win98 or Win XP Home can be full domain members. Not having used Win
XP Home, I can't vouch whether it can still log onto a domain like Win98 can
(again: Win98 can log on, but it can never be considered a *trusted* domain
member).
As to printing problems, I've found the simplest set up is just to push
postscript drivers to the desktops, and use BSD lpr + apsfilter + ghostscript
to rasterise the image for Window'ish printers. That's always been a stable
printing environment for me.
As for logon scripting, I'll stick with ActiveState Perl on all the desktops,
and use one standard Perl WSH logon script which automagically configures
itself as per a conf file pulled from the netlogon directory. ;-)
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/
"Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
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