win2003 Active Directory authentication

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> Frank Smith wrote:
> >I am running AD in native mode.  By my ancient understanding of samba, I 
> >cannot join this domain.
> 
> That is not correct, and is indeed ancient. Samba 3 can join an AD 
> native-mode domain. See the massive quantity of docs include with samba. 
> Once in the domain, the winbind daemon can be started and the ntlm_auth 
> helper used to answer MS-CHAP requests.

perhaps this might help:

http://www.mpking.com/articles.php?lng=en&pg=55

alan