Newbie Samba question

[Tony Wasson]

> I'm trying to set up a Samba server for my home network as a PDC in order
to
> enable roaming profiles with WinXP pro clients.  Nothing special, I just
> want to have roaming profiles and share files/printers.
> I'm running Mandrake 9.0 (fresh install) and have gone cross-eyed editing
> smb.conf, lmhosts, etc.
> I'm able to connect to the linux box, but I get a login error message when
I
> attempt a login.
> I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Like anything, start simple and and features until it breaks....
I'd setup a bare bones smb.conf that lets you "net use" a drive and browse
the list of shares with "net view".

After you get that working, turn on the PDC features.
Make sure you can login to the domain and then start checking profile saving
and roaming features.

Tony Wasson