We are having some 300 client machines, each running windows xp and windows 2000 and the server is Wndows 2003 Server. Now we planned to have some linux clients so i need to know the information regarding the joining of linux machine into windows ADS domain network
you can’t
only windows machines can be members of a windows domain
Take a look at samba. www.samba.org I think.
I agree. You can’t join them to the domain but you can browse windows shared folders using samba.
Depending on how your network is setup and how you authenticate make sure you have Kerberos and LDAP installed. You need to install SAMBA and edit your SMB.CONF file to look something like the one in the link I included.