Some suggested reading;
---
The Unofficial Samba HOWTO
http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html

The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...TO-Collection/

Chapter 37. The Samba ChecklistPrev Part V. Troubleshooting
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...diagnosis.html

Using Samba, 2nd Edition
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...samba/toc.html

Thanks!
¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤º° John Raff `°º¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤
john@jraff.com, www.jraff.com, www.raff.ws

"Feris" wrote in message
news:11gp10ttib2s877@corp.supernews.com...
> Please forgive newness here. Have accepted job as network administrator
> coming from a helpdesk type position. One task in front of me is
upgrading
> an NT domain. I want to use Samba to replace it, and have been reading
the
> Howto, FAQ's etc.
>
> The current NT domain is a singularly named "WMHS" left over from before
> organization got a dedicated Internet connection. Now they have a
dedicated
> connection and their own domain name, let's say "wmcare.org", but it is
not
> used inside the internal network (NAT inside a firewall); it is simply for
> email addresses hosted at our ISP.
>
> My question is:
>
> Assume I move to a Samba PDC to replace NT PDC and start using LDAP. LDAP
> requires "real" DNS server internally. How does this affect users who
have
> Win2k/XP and Control Panel->System->Domain->"WMHS" entries? Will those
have
> to be modified as well to "wmcare.org" and reflect what new Samba server
> uses? Or can they be left as "WMHS".
>
> I guess my question really is must the domain that Samba uses be the same
as
> what the DNS entry is?
>
> Thank you for replies.
> Ric Feris
>
>
>