On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 10:32, Craig White wrote:
> You are not really making sense - why not have a PDC - use samba for
> that if you don't.

Sorry, my original rambling began with trying to store roaming profiles
on a samba server in a workgroup (not a domain).  That question has been
answered.  It appears that M$ requires the client workstation to be in a
domain to use roaming profiles.  I was trying to avoid creating a
pseudo-domain.  Now I realize, I must do that.

> At either rate (with or without a PDC) a samba user is also a local user
> on Linux. Use webmin <http://www.webmin.com> and configure samba to sync
> users so that if you use webmin Users and Groups, it automatically
> creates the samba user. The use of winbind allows you to automagically
> create the local user profile via the SMB user profile from the PDC. The
> last alternative is user mapping - /etc/samba/smbusers which maps samba
> users to local unix users.

Got it.  Plenty of choices for user/perm mapping.  This all makes a lot
more sense once the samba server and all the wormden are in a "domain"
instead of a workgroup.  Obviously, it doesn't matter if that is a real
M$ domain or samba boxes emulating a domain.

Thanks for the help,
...Kevin