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[Evil Jeff]

I need to set up a file server on a windows network. I can't seem to be able to get it to accept connections from other machines. I can see it on the network, but it won't allow anyone to log in. I keep getting errors that the user is not allowed to log in from "this station".

I've tried swat and linuxconf, as well as manually editing my config files. I have set up the allowed hosts, etc in samba. I can't think what is wrong.

If I have to, I would be happy to make the share browseable by the entire network. In fact, I would prefer it. At the very least I need one user to be able to log in. If I can't get this set up I am going to be forced to rely on win2k for a mission critical file server for my department. Please save me :)

The network is a pretty standard setup. Authentication is done on the client level (each machine determines who can log in or not), there is no password server. A wins server shouldn't need to be specified, it should be discovered automatically through dhcp.

I've r'd the fm, and I still can't figure it out. I'm using conectiva 6.0 (very similar to rh6.2, but with apt) for the server, but would be happy to get rid of it to use something that someone knows how to configure for this. I've worked with most of the distros. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

[Sweede]

Use windows 2000 server and active directory. if you so worried about mission critical (which, if your intellegent about your hardware and what you actually install on your machine, you wont need to) you can add two or three mirror PDC's and use distributed file systems and Windows 2000 replication services to mirror the data.

if you use scsi and raid services you'll never lose a byte of data even if you have to hot-swap a RAID 3 mirror during massive file transfers, you can remove, add, and activate the new disk without taking down the array (which, btw, you cant do in linux, according to the raid info on kernel.org)


Using linux for a file server/public domain controller would be like, using windows for a webserver.

[dvdnut]

thats not what this forum is about, suggesting a windows alternative for a linux problem

now now

help the guy out rather than suggest a windoze solution

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[Sweede]

I am helping the guy, have you tried to run a real PDC from a linux box? especially having to connect Window 98, NT 4.0 AND windows 2000 clients to the box and have things work right.

[Evil Jeff]

Well, I've tried running it from a windows box (both nt and 2k) and it's slow and they crash out on us all the time. They can't handle more than two clients logged in before they slow to a crawl. We aren't talkinng about the latest and greatest hardware here. I want to optimize use of what we have by using linux :)