[lug] Samba or other non-Microsoft PDC ON Windows?

[Elyse M. Grasso]

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 11:05 am, David Anselmi wrote:
> Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> [...]
> > Has anyone heard of any PDC implementation for Windows other than 
Microsoft's?
> 
> I'm using Samba.  My Linux server is a PDC.  It operates as a Win2k PDC 
> but XP doesn't seem to complain (most clients are Win2k also).  You can 
> probably set XP to hate Samba but by default it doesn't (for some values 
> of default).
> 
> I didn't do much beyond read the Samba docs on making a PDC.  And 
> googling for a problem that a config change from 2.x to 3.x caused.
> 
> Dave
> 
If I was going to be on a network with access to a server, that is what I 
would do. The problem is running Windows XP demos on a standalone laptop. 
That's why I asked for alternative PDCs that would run on XP.

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Elyse Grasso

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