SAMBA again

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 05:50 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> On 11/24/05, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> This is what split horizon DNS is for. BIND 9 has supported this for a
> long time now. Manually maintaining /etc/hosts files is too much
> trouble.

Yep. But it seems managing the Novell/MS stuff is not enough to keep the
IT guys occupied. They want more to do.

> The machine account is created by the machine and if its part of an NT
> domain, should be added to that domain automagically when it enters
> the domain.

Is the domain a mystical fuzzy place :) How does one enter it? Can one
do so entirely and completely from Linux? Is this what the admin login
(via the Linux 'net join ads' command) from the Linux machine
accomplishes? Or is there something else that must also happen
before/after this? Can a Windows server admin check that a machine is in
the AD?

I hate to seem dense on this point, but I think there is a lot of
talking around the issue without ever explicitly stating specifics. That
and the local IT guys are showing a surprising lack of usefulness on
this point.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB