[OpenAFS] New "B" question: Samba versus AFS.

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:09:21 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Tino Schwarze wrote:

> > enough to make running the OpenAFS client out of the startup group
> > difficult to manage.  But, if you go to all that trouble to make Win9x be
> > multiuser, why not run Win2K or XP?
> 
> You've got some 10 spare licenses and about two weeks of time? This is a
> _school_ -> no money available, use what you have, everything done
> voluntarily in spare time.

To be fair, school and "nothing to work with" are similar, but not
synonyous. I sympathize with your plight, just the same.

> > If you are successfully running samba as a PDC and doing AFS
> > authentication, I'd really like to know how you did it.
> 
> I'm not really sure about the terminology (PDC etc.). I guess, machine

Primary Domain Controller. I'm not entirely "up" on Windows, but, the
machine which mediates user authentication for domain logons, I think.