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1.1. How do I know if I need Samba Primary Domain Controller (PDC)
support and how much of its functionality is currently implemented?
If you wish to have Samba act as a PDC for Windows NT 3.51.and 4.0 client, then you
will need to obtain the latest main branch source code (see 2.1).
The following is a list of included currently features
- The ability to act as a PDC for Windows NT 3.51 Servoce Pack 5 and 4.0 Service Pack 4
clients. This includes adding NT machines to the domain and authenticating users
logging into the domain.
- Domain account can be viewed using the "User Manager for Domains".
- Viewing resources on the Samba PDC via the "Server Manager for Domains" from
the NT client.
- Windows 95 clients will allow "user level" security to be set but will not
currently allow browsing of accounts.
- Machine account password updates.
- Changing of user passwords from an NT client.
- Username <-> RID mapping
- some tools work with this such as the NT Sec tools from pedastal software.
- some tools, like explorer.exe, do not
- Partial support for Windows NT group and username mapping
- Support for a LDAP password database backend
Release of a stable, full featured Samba PDC is currently slated for version 2.1.
The NT domain client code is available beginning with version 2.0. The
following are not currently available in the NTDOM PDC support but eventually will be.
- Trust relationships
- PDC <=> BDC integration
- Network printing (see question 2.5 for a workaround)
- Windows NT ACLs (on the Samba shares)
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