Help! Setting up opensuse as a PDC

[ricky15100]

Hi everyone, this is my first post, but im really stuck!!

OK Ive downloaded and installed the latest version of opensuse, i want to set it up as a PDC. How do i do this?

Also i have installed fedora on another machine and would like to know how i join this machine to the opensuse domain after it has been configured as a PDC.

Please go easy on me as i am a complete beginner, but would love to be able to use this at the school where i work.

Thanks in advance

[gogalthorp]

What is PDC? As best I can tell it is some sort of blogging software???

My guess is that you would first need to install a web server.

[HROAdmin26]

PDC = Primary Domain Controller

If you are new to Windows Domains, Linux, and Samba...you have a lot of reading to do...

Google => samba configuration pdc

[ricky15100]

Thanks for the reply, im not new to windows domains i run a network at the minute, but wanted to have a go at setting up a linux network, not with windows clients but with linux clients. Ive manged to setup my server but now want to join a linux client to this network, using some sort of authentication maybe openldap, or maybe somebody could suggest something.

Basicly if i had 250 machines on a network and wanted linux clients and one PDC, is there an easy way to join all the pcs to the domain?

[bigtomrodney]

You should be able to find tools for managing domains in YaST. SUSE has always been good for supplying config tools for this kind of thing. You can have a look in the Samba section too.

[HROAdmin26]

wanted to have a go at setting up a linux network, not with windows clients but with linux clients

"Domains" and "PDC" are Windows terms. If you don't have Windows machines to join to this domain, I don't know why you would want to run Samba as a PDC.

For an all *Nix environment, there is NFS for network file access and LDAP for multi-user management (among others.)