samba - Aug 2002 - Setting up a PDC + multiple BDCs across subnets

hello,

I'd like to setup domain authentication purely based on Samba Domain
Controllers. Each subnet would have its own BDC (with security = domain
option), forwarding smb requests to the PDC (located on the backbone),
ie authentication, shares..

My PDC is LDAP based, all that part is ok, win98 workstations
successfully log into the PDC. I use idealx smbldap tools, that seem to
work fine. I followed idealx's howto lines.

In fact problems come when attempting to logon 98 ws thru a BDC. I just
can't join that BDC to my domain (with both smb - nmb processes down,
smbpasswd -j DOMAIN returns no domain controller found for some hosts,
or unable to setup PDC credentials for others)
I tried adding the BDC hostname into the LDAP tree, then re attempted to
join the domain, nothing helped..

If someone ever experienced that situation, can he gives me a clue?
Thanks in advance

Hi!

For me smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC works, but I have to create an LDAP
Account
for the maschine name that joins the domain first. (smbpasswd -a -m BDC$ )
or some other script to
create machines on the PDC.
I use Samba 2.2.6pre1.

Alexander Nimmervoll


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandre BOULANGER" <alex.boulanger@askus.fr>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:53 PM
Subject: [Samba] Setting up a PDC + multiple BDCs across subnets

> hello,
>
> I'd like to setup domain authentication purely based on Samba Domain
> Controllers. Each subnet would have its own BDC (with security = domain
> option), forwarding smb requests to the PDC (located on the backbone),
> ie authentication, shares..
>
> My PDC is LDAP based, all that part is ok, win98 workstations
> successfully log into the PDC. I use idealx smbldap tools, that seem to
> work fine. I followed idealx's howto lines.
>
> In fact problems come when attempting to logon 98 ws thru a BDC. I just
> can't join that BDC to my domain (with both smb - nmb processes down,
> smbpasswd -j DOMAIN returns no domain controller found for some hosts,
> or unable to setup PDC credentials for others)
> I tried adding the BDC hostname into the LDAP tree, then re attempted to
> join the domain, nothing helped..
>
> If someone ever experienced that situation, can he gives me a clue?
> Thanks in advance
>
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