We currently do not have the correct permissions on the file shares as most of them were originally setup by Tiny who installed the server and they just set Everyone Full Control. We have been going through fixing it but not got very far! He wants Win2K because we are having problems with Win2K Workstations connecting properly on to the network - it might just be a policy thing rather than a server thing - i'm not sure.
I experienced similar difficulties here connecting Win 2k workstation to an NT 4 system. Overcame it by using the Group Policy tool (an MMC snap in under Win 2K). Once I had created a policy that worked just copied it to the other machines (everything sits in the GroupPolicy folder under System32) and everything has worked ever since.
The other problem he doesn't like is that at the moment if someone plugs a laptop into a network port, it gets assigned an IP by DHCP (thats ok) but then it will be able to do a \\server and bring up all the file shares and get into some of them without logging in at all - will samba make it so file shares will only appear when a user logs in?
Once thing you could do is make the shares hidden, just add a $ sign to the end of the share name. This forces it to be a hidden share and won't appear in the normal Network list. I know this method is time consuming - I had to do it in the summer for 1500 or so shares! :-( I do have some semi-automated scripts somewhere which may prove useful. Cheers, Matt
Thanks, Alex Brett alex.brett@brettcopmuters.co.uk
On 26 Jan 2002, at 23:37, Dan Kolb wrote:
On Saturday 26 January 2002 22:54, Alex Brett wrote:
I help my old school out with their computers and i currently have a Win NT4 server with Win95 clients. I also have one Red Hat Linux 7.1 Server running Squid, DNS and NAT for the internet. I want to turn the Win NT4 server into another Linux server hopefully running a Red Hat or a Suse version. The system has to be able to cope with logins from Win 95 clients, deal with the profiles we currently
Use Samba :-) It can provide NT domain-type authentication (at least the later versions, 2.2*(?) can).
use (a config.pol file in netlogon) and provide tight file security
I think the config.pol is more of a client issue, isn't it? If
the pol file to the workstation, and get the netlogon.bat script to run poledit (or appropriate), it should work. Disclaimer: I haven't
you transfer tried, so I'm
not 100% sure.
(something we currently do not have with NT4!). From my
You haven't? NT has support for very good file security, if properly implemented (which it inherited from VMS).
experiments with Samba I believe it can do this but is there anything important I should know. The network admin there is
Samba should be able to do all you want, and probably more :)
looking at Win2k but I want to provide him with reasons to go for
Why Win2k? If NT4 does all you need it to, is there much point in upgrading? (To Linux, there may be a point, but I'm not sure about Win2k)
linux. Also, as a side-point - is it possible to tie network cards together to provide greater bandwidth by doing load balancing or similar?
AFAIA, yes :) Something like ethernet bonding, or network device bonding. There's probably a HOWTO somewhere :)
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