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XP Samba Network - Confuzed!

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I am running Suse 9.1 with Samba 3.0.2.  All our clients are XP Pro (ugh).  I want to make it so when you login at the XP station, a drive would be mapped to the Samba box, so you can get your files from anywhere.  But, man, this is proving difficult.  I have about 100 clients, and about 400 users (this is a school).  Some docs say I have to add each machine and they talk about vigr and vipw utilities, and I am so lost!  Is there a fairly easy way to get this going???

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Hi,

you would create a Samba share like /home and in the home directory you would have the users, have you looked at SWAT that will help configure it.
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Does the drive have to have different directories which can only be accessed by certain users or is it just a basic backup drive with no security concerns?
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I want the server to be a PDC (or at least, when a student logs in at an XP station, he is automatically mapped to a share on the Samba box).  If this is the first time that student logs in, the share is automatically created.  I am sharing the /home dir on Linux.

Any help is great!
SWAT doesn't do it for me, it really wipes out the smb.conf file.
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I don't know.  This sounds way too difficult.  I don't have or want an AD.  Has Microcrap done away with the whole PDC concept with XP computers???

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