robert sweetnam sgjavsweetnameu michael watterson wrote nick murtagh wrote robert sweetnam wrote im pretty certain ubuntu 606 fedora 7 ad authentication wouldnt work unless specified cifs instead smbfs ah never mentioned ad trust works nonad stuff windows including bdcs pdcs works without ad domain smoke mirrors username account even nt40 workstation server tools domain member nearly admin everything pdc fedora plain debian ubuntu connect fine w2k server suspect ad evil dont know ignore cant ignore nt 40 domains nothing like active directory domainsforestsetc applies either windows 2000 schema 2003 schema compatible extent active directory ldap directory unlike nt4 albeit true ms fashion bent rules example bent rules much windows 2000 server act backup domain controller windows 2003 domainactive directory neither example ad much complicated evil ldap given two essentially quite one would expect ad schemas nightmare although impossible understand would hazard guess saying windows servers standalone using accounts local machine therefore situation need access windows shares differs scenario companies find said scenarios us ignore namely alternative use ad authenticate mount share fact possible use ad account log linux machine saying smoke mirrors comparing experiences rather catch statement especially mention presumably none clients authenticating active directory scenario works anyone happens find scenario find mount windows 2000 2003 share linuxbsdsolaris machine samba v3 higher better imho mount windows share using cifs file type using active directory username password way significantly reduce risk error regards robert thu 07 aug 2008 134107 0000 ilug mounting windows shares linux