New Debian Workstation and Win2kServer license limit?

[LAT]

My eyebrows raised when our IS guy (who, sigh, is leaving us to other pastures soon.....guess who gets to hold the fort down) told me we couldn't get internet connection for the new debian workstation we set up because of licensing issues on the Win2k SBS Server. Something about the server sometimes sees up to 21 users/devices.
It looked to me like we were only using 18-19 of the 20 available. Now, great guy and I respect his work, but he works from the seat of his pants as much as I do. Could this be a real road block? I have until the end of this week to get this figured out and don't want the "barking up the wrong tree" thing happening. I know a 5-pack license isn't that much, but we are small and I would hate to tell my people they need to buy something when all I need to do is keep playing around with smb.conf

Where I'm at:
Debian 3.01 Woody installed
KDE
Installed smbclient, smbfs, samba
Can ping the server
Debian workstation shows up in Network Neighborhood
Left work without a successful file share
No Internet which is ALL that this workstation requires

Thank you...and, honestly, I usually find my own answers with google/JL. Those mack trucks hit quick and hard ;0

LAT

[cowanrl]

If all you are wanting to do with the Debian workstation is access the Internet, you don't need Samba at all. The only thing you would need Samba for is to access SMB shares on any of the Windows machines on your network or to authenticate to AD Domain on the SBS at log in. If any of that applies to your situation, it would be included in the total number of licenses you need on your SBS.

If you're running ISA server on your SBS for your firewall/proxy server, you'll probably never get your Debian machine through it, though it depends on the set up of ISA server.

I run ISA server on our Win2k SBS here and it's set up to require AD Domain authentication to access the Internet through it. That is the default setup. I was never able to get a Red Hat workstation to go through it using a web browser. The only clients that could get a web browser through it were Windows machines using IE and the latest versions of Mozilla. Mozilla running on the Red Hat machine did not support the Microsoft authentication to get though ISA server. Samba won't help the browser authentication.

I finally ended up putting the Red Hat machine in front of the ISA server and assigning it a static IP address on the Internet.

I haven't tried this since about Mozilla 1.4 and I beleive it's on 1.6 now so I don't know if they've added support for the Microsoft authentication to the Linux version or not.

If you're not using the ISA server as the firewall/proxy, you shouldn't have any problems accessing the Internet .