[K12OSN] K12LSTP in a Windows Environment

[cliebow at downeast.net]

I USE WINBIND FOR AUTHENTICATION TO A W2000 DOMAIN..WORKS VERY WELL.You
will find an excellent discussion in John Terpstra's Samba 3 book..I have
it working in rh9 and fedora core..vhuvk

> Hello all,
>     I've got a well-established Windows NT domain running here, and I'm 
> trying to add some Linux terminals to the mix.  I know very little about 
> Linux in general and even less about Terminal Services specifically.  
> There are a couple of things I want to do, but I don't know how, or if 
> they're even possible.  Is there some way to synchronize the Linux 
> server with my NT Primary Domain Controller so that my users can log on 
> to the terminals with their existing NT user names and passwords?  Also, 
> is there some way to access the existing network printers?  We've got 
> several workgroup printers (HP Color LaserJet 4500 and Oki C5100N) setup 
> throughout the campuses that are shared via Windows NT servers.  Can the 
> Linux server get access to them so that users can simply select with 
> printer they want to print to?  Does Samba do that?  I've read that I 
> can share a printer connected to a Linux machine with Windows machines, 
> but does it work the other way around?  I've done a cursory search on 
> the Web and haven't found Linux drivers for these printers, so I don't 
> quite know what to do. If someone could set me straight here, I would 
> appreciated it.
> 
> -- 
> C-ya,
> Mark
> ____
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Clarence Thomas
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