server question

[yawningdog]

Can Redhat be used as a domain controller for a windows network? Seems like a good way to get out of that pesky MS server-client license.

[serz]

You mean a DNS Server? If so.. search some info about bind.

[cowanrl]

You can run Samba on your Red Hat server and it can act as an NT type domain controller for your Windows clients. It's more like an NT domain controller because it doesn't support Microsoft's Active Directory yet.

It works great though for file and print sharing and controlling access to your computers and resources on the network. Users would log in to the Samba domain from the Windows clients just as if it was an NT domain.

There should be a copy of Samba on the Red Hat distribution CDs you have. You can also get the latest version from www.samba.org. There's also a lot of documentation for it at samba.org. It's a subject that's well covered on this site and if you do a search on Samba over the last year, you'll find plenty of info. I'm sure you'll find complete details on setting up your Red Hat/Samba server as a Windows domain controller.

[yawningdog]

I don't mean DNS and I don't mean file and print sharing. I mean when a person logs onto a domain on, say, a W2K machine, the Redhat server authenticates the login and password of the user and allows access to the network.

[homey]

Like cowanrl said, it can act as a Domain Controller. Check into Samba.