getting an NT 4 box to connect to linux gateway

Quoting Peter Martin <mazdaracer@earthlink.net>:

> My company laptop is running NT 4 on domain 'company'. I have to log
> into that domain to get to the VPN (Shiva) and then Outlook for the
> email.
>
> 1) I have a Linux partition on the laptop. My home box name is
> "pm.mountainautomation.com" and the laptop is
> "dell.mountainautomation.com". Connects A-OK via the "pm" gateway!
>
> 2) Logging onto the NT side with the company logon/domain, I get no
> net
> connection. I do not have Samba set up or running. BTW, Mandrake 8.0!
> (Too bad, more games, and other programs on the earlier 7.2 release!
> May
> have to go back.) Furthermore, the laptop is running Mandrake 7.2 in
> case anyone cares.
>
> Q1 - Has anyone been able to do this? Can it be done? I'm assuming so
> with Linux!!
>
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I'm gonna stab at the first question...

I can mount drives on a peer to peer network using only mount -t smbfs username=
etc... see man mntsmbfs

but that ain't gonna work on a domain

Domain means - Samba

man smbd / smb.conf

once you get it set up ...

too very cool things

1. smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC
(joins your comupter to the domain)

2. install pam_smb - will use the domain controller to authenticate users on
services - i.e. login access for http/ftp/etc

Craig

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