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diff --git a/docs/docbook/samba-pdc-faq.sgml b/docs/docbook/samba-pdc-faq.sgml index 10d3ec6a04..4034987480 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/samba-pdc-faq.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/samba-pdc-faq.sgml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <firstname>David</firstname><surname>Bannon</surname> <affiliation><orgname>La Trobe University</orgname></affiliation> </author> - <address><email>D.Bannon@latrobe.edu.au</email></address> + <address><email>dbannon@samba.org</email></address> <pubdate>November 2000</pubdate> </bookinfo> @@ -45,11 +45,26 @@ <sect1><title id=stateofplay>State of Play</title> <para><emphasis>It should be noted that 2.2.0 in its pre-release form still has a few problems, I'll try and keep this section current while things are still dynamic. - At the time of this update (November 13, 2000) the current state of play is :</emphasis></para> + At the time of this update (December 15, 2000) the current state of play is :</emphasis></para> <para>Comments here about W2K joining the domain apply only to Samba 2.2 from the CVS after November 27th. The 'snapshot' release Samba2.2alpha1 does not work !!! See below on how to get a CVS tree.</para> + <para><command>Known Bug !</>W2K machines will not successfully join a domain with a name that + is made up from an even number of characters. Yep, thats right ! BIOTEST is OK as is MYDOMAI + but MYDOMAIN will not work until this bug is fixed. Hmm.., we believe + that this bug is fixed, but see below.</para> + + <para><command>Known Bug !</>After some bugs were fixed just before + Christmas, W2K SP1 machines cannot join the domain. Expected to be + fixed early in the new year. Whats that ? yeah, samba developers + have a Christmas break too !</para> + + + <para><command>Know Bug !</>NTs (and possibly W2K ?) are not told the logged on user is a domain + admin if the parameter "domain admin users = user" is used. The alternative, "domain admin group" + does work. See the HowTo.</> + <para>Client Side creation of Machine accounts does work but is not complete. Firstly, the <filename>add user script</> runs as the user who's name was entered, not as root. Secondly, the machine name passed to the script (%U) @@ -799,7 +814,7 @@ and documentation. The docs that come with the samba distribution contain very good explanations of general SMB topics such as browsing.</para> -<sect2><title>URLs and similar</title> +<sect2><title id=urls>URLs and similar</title> <itemizedlist> @@ -824,6 +839,10 @@ http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng</ulink>, but again, a lot of it does not apply to the main stream Samba.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>See how Scott Merrill simulates a BDC behaviour at + <ulink url="http://www.skippy.net/linux/smb-howto.html"> + http://www.skippy.net/linux/smb-howto.html</>. </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Although 2.0.7 has almost had its day as a PDC, I (drb) will keep the 2.0.7 PDC pages at <ulink url="http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba"> http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba</ulink> going for a while yet.</para></listitem> |