Mike Hollyman writes:

We are a primarily Unix environment and are placing a netapp in for a shared filesystem.

We are told that the Samba PDC will not work to authenticate the filer in CIFS. We've also tried Sun's NetLink software that emulates a PDC with no luck.

Is there any way to get encrypted passwords to the filer without using a "real" NT server PDC?

We had a similar situation when we got our F720 - the original plan was to use it with SunLink Server, but it appeared that this system's emulation of a PDC was not perfect - IIRC, there was an issue with endian-ness of some transactions (1). Samba doesn't work yet either, but I suspect that it will at some stage in thr future.

However, we had no option but to introduce a real NT Server as a PDC (although the accounts are set up on it under remote-control from the Unix box which contains the master user account database).

Colm