Re: [PLUG] linux/active directory

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Ronald Mansolino (rmsolino@netaxs.com) had this to say on 09/05/05 at 22:03: 
> 
> ok.
> My friend went and turned on the active directory on his win2003 server. ugh.
> He then found out that the only clients that could use the network were
> XP Pro, so he shelled aout a bunch of dough for upgrades.

Then he must have configured his AD wrong, because there's no way that
earlier clients (Win2K and under) don't work with Win2K3 AD (in what used to
be called "mixed mode", I believe).

> He then realized that friends who come by need to print, and occasionally
> use shares that worked when it was just a workgroup.
> 
> I'm going up there to play with my workstation so that I can intermediate
> amongst all this. I've futzed around with samba to make backups, etc; I could 
> use some pointers as to joining it to his domain and then sharing/serving
> printers, etc.
> 
> and then billing him for it :)
> thanks
> 
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