[KLUG Members] Samba Win2k logon scripts

[Mike Williams]

>To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:20:42 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Adam Tauno Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>
>Subject: [KLUG Members] WinY2K and logon scripts.
>Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>
>I have a Samba 2.2.1a-ldap.4 PDC on RedHat 7.1.  It happily deals
>out logon
>scripts (those batch files that run when you log on) to NT 4.0sp6
>and Win9x
>machines.  But on WinY2k workstations the logon scripts simply don't
>run.
>Documentation makes it appear that NT/WinY2k handle logon scripts
>the same,  so
>any pointers from those who know more about Redmond product than me?
> Or is it
>a Samba thing?

Windows 2000 has a much fancier way of assigning drive letters, installing 
programs, and configuring the client machines than the previous script 
system.  If you actually have LDAP working properly, there's probably a 
place buried in it somewhere that you can put scripts, but I'm not familiar 
enough with the schema to know where.  

>The WinY2k machines have happily joined the domain,  automatically
>created
>machine accounts for themselves in the LDAP directory, etc...   It
>even works
>to upload print drivers to the Samba box...  I'm simply amazed,
>those Samba
>guys rock.  I'll even admit that WinY2k is a big leap forward from
>NT 4.0.

I'd very much like to know more about your LDAP configuration since I"m 
trying to do something similar to my own setup.  In particular, have you 
managed to get a Samba PDC and a W2k domain controller to share a domain 
and replicate with each other?  In NT compatibility or 2000 only mode?  
Centralized security through Kerberos?  All I've managed so far is a w2k 
DNS subzone from a BIND root.