Craig, It has never been my intention to deprive anyone of anything, but this forum is not appropriate for a project like this as I can't seem to build the network on my own, as my failed attempts have shown. Your comment about AD is what I thought and have been proven wrong numerous times with catastrophic results. Samba in it's current configuration doesn't work with Kerberos and LDAP except for NT4 and I'm running Server 2003, so it broke the Domain Controllers when Linux attempted to join the domain. I have been through the Samba forums and documentation and it's not as simple as it is made to look in an existing network. My request is for someone willing to work with me on a project to build an equivalent Linux network to the one I currently manage and at the same time help me to get past the learning hurdles I haven't been able to jump. If you want to participate, that's fine, but I need to meet my current goal in a reasonable time/budget and after that I have no problem with people using this "sandbox" for other reasonable goals. If I can successfully reach my goal then I will attempt to re-create for my production environment, later. I'd welcome anyone's assistance. Sean parsons > ---- > Wouldn't it be more useful and instructive to keep your questions on > list? You would benefit from a greater availability of opinions too. > > Also, it seems a bit unfair to want private advising and deprive the > list of the knowledge that is gathered by solving problems which I would > gather would be rather typical for many offices/businesses. > > There is no need to make changes to an AD environment to add Linux > servers and/or workstations. > > Craig > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss