RE: Use Linuxdesktop to login to an NT server.

[carl.tan@delphiauto.com]

Hello Rick,

Thanks for your reply.

However, I am not sure if this would help me. I am going to try that just as
soon as I rattle of this mail in Win98.

Sorry for the thick-head that I have, but perhaps I better explain myself a
little better.

My office uses an NT server for file sharing purposes.

My workstation has a Win98 partition. I use the Microsoft Network Client to
login to the server. (all it ever asks for is user, pass, and domain, which we
shall call x for now)

Form there, it maps drives H through S for me in Windows Explorer. I assume
these user directory locations belong somewhere on that NT server.

What I want to do is do the same thing in Linux.

1. Login to that server (which has a domain name x, and an as-yet unknown server
name/ip address; I am trying to get my sys admin to tell me ;-)

2. Give my NT server username and password and domain I want to log in to (in
this case, x)

3. Then download the startup script and map those same user directories to
somewhere on the ext2 fs tree.

4. Access files I created on the NT server (like Lotus notes databases, email,
etc.)

Is this at all possible just by using samba?

Thanks again for your time and trouble.


Regards
Carl.




-----Original Message-----

A lot depends on what you are trying to do on the NT side of things.

For purposes of moving files back and forth I connect from my debian box to
my Win2K box using the SMB client, "smbclient".  The command I use is

     smbclient //win2k/d\$ -U username

It will connect you to the machine and ask you for your NT password.  In the
above example I am connecting directly to the Win2K D: drive.  If there is a
specific share, then use that share name.  the "-U username" let's you put
in a valid NT account name on the computer you are connecting to.

-rick



-----Original Message-----
From: carl.tan@delphiauto.com [mailto:carl.tan@delphiauto.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:52 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Use Linuxdesktop to login to an NT server.




HI all,

I am not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but please guide me to
the
right location.

How would I go about, using Linux on my workstation, to login to an NT
server on
my company LAN?

I know SAMBA, pam_smb, and possibly NIS is involved in some way, but I don't
know much more.

Ideally, I would like to do the same as on my windows partition: login to an
NT
domain (as in Microsoft Network Services), and then get the login scripts to
map
my server directories to local drive assignments (or in LInux case, mounted
somewhere on my home directory).

Could someone help? Thanks in advance.

Regards
Carl.