I am trying to setup a Samba as a primary domain controller using 9.1. There are five servers and five clients on the network. The servers are all Linux, the clients are mostly Windows 2K and XP. I need a little guidance at this point on how to proceed. I can mount shares using the IP address "net use * \\192.168.1.34\SomeShare" works just fine. But I cannot join the domain.
From my reading and the error messages so far, I realize that I have to setup DNS also. OK, but in reading the DNS info in talks about setting up zone files where I hardcode the IP addresses for each hostname on the network. That seems to defeat the purpose of DHCP though. I'm currently using a Linksys firewall as a DHCP server for my Windows clients. Do I have to disable DHCP to get this working correctly?
Also, for such a small LAN, using LDAP for user management would be overkill - right? I can just create an account for each LAN user on the PDC? Thanks in advance - Richard