Did I understand from something Jeremy said recently that a recommended mode of operation for those wishing to try the full PDC support might be: 1. all file servers running production version (currently 2.0.4b) 2. single PDC machine running HEAD branch in order to get the stability and performance of the production version while still being able to use the latest PDC functionality? In other words, should I expect that the two different versions should inter-work successfully? Are others using this setup? I am keen to try the full PDC functionality with NTWS4, but a bit reluctant to implement the 2.0.4b version since I know this will be superceded (soonish?) and that changing over will require considerable reconfiguration. Comments and suggestions welcomed. George --------------------------------------------------------------------- George Cameron g.cameron@biomed.abdn.ac.uk Dept. BioMedical Physics Aberdeen University Foresterhill Fax: +44 (0)1224-685645 Aberdeen AB25 2ZD Telephone: +44 (0)1224-663123 ext 53210 Scotland, UK
George Cameron wrote:> > Did I understand from something Jeremy said recently that a recommended > mode of operation for those wishing to try the full PDC support might > be: > > 1. all file servers running production version (currently 2.0.4b) > 2. single PDC machine running HEAD branch > > in order to get the stability and performance of the production version > while still being able to use the latest PDC functionality?Yes.> In other words, should I expect that the two different versions should > inter-work successfully? > > Are others using this setup?I do. Works fine. I do securely distribute the smbpasswd file peridically to all servers though rather than using security = [domain|server] Cheers, jerry ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
In a message dated: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:57:59 +1000 George Cameron said:>Did I understand from something Jeremy said recently that a recommended >mode of operation for those wishing to try the full PDC support might >be: > > 1. all file servers running production version (currently 2.0.4b) > 2. single PDC machine running HEAD branch > >in order to get the stability and performance of the production version >while still being able to use the latest PDC functionality? > >In other words, should I expect that the two different versions should >inter-work successfully?I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you saying you want to run one system as a PDC that does nothing but user/password authentication, and run other systems that act specifically as file/print servers? Hmmm, that seems like it might solve my problem of password updating. Would you then set 'security = server' and then 'password server = <hostname>' pointing toward the system acting as the PDC on the file/print servers? If that works, and is stable, it would definitely solve some of my problems :) I think I could then run the PDC code on my NIS master in order to get the unix passwords updated easily, but not overload it with file/print serving requests. Does that sound like a reasonable/stable thing to do? Are others using this model? How well does it work? Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul ---- plussier@baynetworks.com Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel Company, Eh? :) If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!