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In the NT domain structure you have a PDC and BDC where user can login and get their access. The BDC server will allow users to authenicate. In the case of Linux Samba, samba does not have a BDC and therefore each users authenication would have to come from the main server or the local server...

You need to have the workstations as accounts in smbpasswd. This is done something like the following: # useradd -a /bin/false -d /dev/null "machine_name"\$ # passwd -l "machine_name"\$ # smbpasswd -a -m "machine_name" Also make sure you have access to the shares...

NFS worked fine and suited my needs. It is setup as a samba server because on some occassions my wife and I bring home our laptops and they have W2K and W98 OS on them and we need to connect from our home office to our office in the city. Thanks for the answer all the same.

One other thing, I tried a Windows 98 Pc and it worked as I would like it. So it's just the rhl workstations that do not work properly. The version of Samba is 2.2.1a-4. Thanks

I have a small network at home with 3 Linux Desktops (rhl7.3) and 1 Linux server (rhl7.2). The server has smaba installed and working. My question is how can I set it system where the users can login and have access to certain directories automatically instead of using Nautilus to access the...