At work we have got Active Directory win2003 , and the OSs here are windows 2003 and windows XP.

From my winodws box, I can access the domain as normal user, by suing (username:zillah, password :niceforum), and also I can access the PC as stand alone workstation, by using (username: administrator, password: junk)

At work how can I configure my laptop (FC5) to join the domain ? What should I take in the consideration to achieve this ?

When I googled I found many URLs, what i am looking is to see some tutorial (steps- by-steps either : Figures, or commands line) to follow the steps to make sure, that I am doing the right things.

Note: one issue is to use samba

I tried to start the process of samba installation from scratch, but i could not get it done!!!! What I have done is this :

[root@localhost ~]# man samba
No manual entry for samba
[root@localhost log]# smbd -V
bash: smbd: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# ls -Rl | grep samba*
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep samba*
samba-client-3.0.21b-2
samba-common-3.0.21b-2

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -i samba-client-3.0.21b-2
error: open of samba-client-3.0.21b-2 failed: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -i samba-common-3.0.21b-2
error: open of samba-common-3.0.21b-2 failed: No such file or directory

[root@localhost ~]# apt -get install samba swat
bash: apt: command not found


I tried to use less /var/log/packages/samba*

[root@localhost ~]# cd /var/log
[root@localhost log]# ls
anaconda.log btmp gdm maillog scrollkeeper.log wtmp
anaconda.syslog cron httpd messages secure Xorg.0.log
anaconda.xlog cups lastlog ppp spooler Xorg.0.log.old
boot.log dmesg mail samba vbox yum.log

[root@localhost log]# cd samba
[root@localhost samba]# ls
[root@localhost samba]# ls -al
total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jan 20 13:51 ..

Desktop --> System Settings --> Server Settings --> Samba
I could not find any thing

Any comment where is my mistake ?

Regards