[H-GEN] Samba 2.0.5

[Hilton Travis]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Hilton Travis" <QuarkComputers at email.com>)

> > 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

Well, I'm just about to blow my RedHat 5.2 install away (since I couldn't
get 2.0.3 to install with the RHPM method - had to recompile it) and install
RedHat 6 tomorrow sometime.  I haven't tried it with an NT server (just
trying to learn Linux after a 6 year break - silly me), and therefore
haven't noticed its instability.  Then again, it's instability vs Microsoft
Windows NT's instability may be difficult to see.   :-)

> 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 ;)

If you try harder, I'm sure you can only get better at it   :-)

-Hilton


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