[H-GEN] Samba 2.0.5

[Craig Armour]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Craig Armour <c.armour at kings.uq.edu.au>)

> PDC - Primary Domain Controller
> BDC - Backup Domain Controller - this contains a backup of the user database
> and other associated guff the PDC keeps, and can authenticate users if the
> PDC fails, not that'd ever happen with a Microsoft OS <BG>

As I understand it, the PDC code in SAMBA was dodgy at best and still
won't fully replicate all the services of PDC without admin
interaction... I couldn't see it feasible to implement BDC code if the
PDC stuff is not working 100%. [1]  PDC is a new thing in the
development tree (2.1?) so again I couldn't imagine BDC code being in
2.0.5

if you are mixing NT with SAMBA, may I suggest you leave the BDC to NT
and set samba as the PDC.  

Of course you can make Samba look very much like a BDC or PDC by doing
things like security=server and dumping the NT SAM to a smbpasswd file
etc...

Cheers 

[1] just wondering how many TLA's I can fit into one sentence ;) 
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