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

[Elyse M. Grasso]

On Friday 08 July 2005 10:23 am, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:12 -0600, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> > On Monday 20 June 2005 04:12 pm, Zan Lynx wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 16:02 -0600, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> > > > I'm using KRUD/Fedora (mostly) and Windows XP Pro on a laptop where I 
need 
> > to 
> > > > be able to do demos and admin script development for customers. The 
> > Windows 
> > > > version of the product I support tends to get cranky if there isn't a 
> > Primary 
> > > > Domain Controller around for it to talk to, which makes setting up a 
> > > > standalone environment a pain (especially since XP networks have a 
strange 
> > > > habit of coming unstuck). 
> > > > 
> > > > There isn't a WinXP server option, and I'm not sure my laptop would 
> > continue 
> > > > to function properly if it got buried under a MS server installation 
> > anyway. 
> > > > Especially when all I want or need is the PDC functionality.
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone heard of any PDC implementation for Windows other than 
> > Microsoft's?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Not a Linux solution, but this is really slick: use VMware to set up a
> > > entire virtual network on your laptop.  If you have 1 GB or more RAM it
> > > works great.  You'll also need some kind of Windows licenses for the
> > > virtual machines, I suppose.
> > > 
> > > I've been using Windows 2003 Enterprise on my VMware sessions just
> > > 'cause I can (MSDN subscription).  It works great.
> > > -- 
> > > Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
> > > 
> > This sounds interesting. Since I have a legal WinXP license for the 
laptop, 
> > and I only really need one Windows instance, I should be ok. With some 
> > moderate sneakiness I might be able to run Linux ClearCase clients against 
> > Vobs on the Windows server, too. (I'm running bleedingedge KRUD and 
ClearCase 
> > mvfs for the vob server can't runon the 2.6.1x+ kernels yet.) 
> > 
> > Which flavor of the Vmware product line do you recommend for this? 
> 
> VMware 5.
> 
> I don't think a single WinXP license will get you what you want.  You
> said that you needed a PDC, so you'll need to run a Windows Server in
> the VMware.
> 
> I was thinking that you could run two VMware sessions: one for the
> server and another one for a virtual WinXP that was a member of the
> domain on the virtual Windows Server.   That keeps your laptop out of it
> and you won't have weird issues with having to change domains all the
> time or being a member of a domain that isn't there.
> -- 
> Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
> 
Is that VMWare Workstation 5? They have half a dozen products listed on their 
site. 

Regarding the need for Windows licenses: if Windows and Linux can talk to each 
other on the laptop, I can set up a Samba PDC on Linux for the Windows 
environment to talk to. 

I'll probably need to set up a DNS server in Linux too. And google for 
interactions between Norton Firewall and the VMWare flavor of networking.  


-- 
Elyse Grasso

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