"LMHost" with redhat 7.2

[Quaggoth]

I have built a redhat box for evaluation at the county I work for and it will browse the web just fine, but can't get to the intranet any other way than using an IP address. I am guessing it's something along the lines of an "LMHost" file but I'm still somewhat new to this OS. It is using DHCP ATM and the DNS entries are correct and all, Any suggestions??? I basically need it to authenticate to NT1 (WinNT 4.0 Domain Controller) when I log in as myself (So far I have been using Root to set it up (I know, BAD QUAGGOTH!)).

Thanks in Advance.

 

[Heisenberg]

Have you edited the smb.conf file appropriately?

 

[Nothinman]

If you mean you want the Linux box to get user acct info from the DC, look into setting up winbind which is a recent addition to Samba.

 

[Quaggoth]

Heisenberg, No, I haven't. I will shortly though.

Nothinman, I'll look into that. I don't know that I need to get user acct INFORMATION as such, but my user acct has domain admin rights and I need to be authenticated by NT1 so I have those privelidges when I log in.

Thanks both. I'll do more research into your suggestions tomorrow and will bump this thread with any new info. Thanks again.

 

[Quaggoth]

Thank you both, but since we are moving to win2000 native mode soon, I don't need to do this. Evidently Samba and native mode 2k environment dont mix yet??? anyway, thanks for the help.

 

[manly]

I'm not sure what you mean by native mode.

My best guess is that in starting in W2K, NetBIOS over TCP/IP is no longer required for Windows Networking.

I have no idea what the Samba project is doing in that direction.

 

[Quaggoth]

Native mode as opposed to mixed mode. It just means everything that matters (I.E. Authenticates) is 2k. I believe if you run native mode there are a few neat little perks, but you would have to ask our operations guys exactly what those are.

 

[manly]

Ahh okay I know little about Winblows NT domains. =)

Here's a quote from Samba's "Domain Member" document:


<< Samba 2.2 is able to act as a member server of a Windows 2000 domain operating in mixed or native mode. >>