samba - Mar 2012 - Is the PDC always needed?

Maybe my understanding is flawed but I thought the purpose of the BDC
was in the case of the PDC going offline, users could still use the
system. Just this morning our PDC failed with bad memory, yet users
were unable to map their network drive. The PDC is in our office while
the file server is in the server room where its been setup as a domain
member. On the server room subnet is its own BDC with its own ldap
server. Checking the logs I see that the server room BDC is listed as
the local domain server. The only thing that comes to mind is the BDC
does point to the PDC as the wins server. Is that the issue? Is there
a way around it?

-- 
David Noriega
System Administrator
Computational Biology Initiative
High Performance Computing Center
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
Office: BSE 3.112
Phone: 210-458-7100
http://www.cbi.utsa.edu

If you have installed the pdc and bdc the right way, all clients will try to
log on likely to the bdc
than the pdc. So you need  2 ldap server(master/master or master/slave) for
authentication and syncing.
If you need wins you should at and samba4wins. Install it on both servers
and replicate the databases between
them. On  your win clients add it as the first and second wins.

Good Luck
Daniel
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Leitung EDV
Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
72076 T?bingen

Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
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Betreff: [Samba] Is the PDC always needed?

Maybe my understanding is flawed but I thought the purpose of the BDC was in
the case of the PDC going offline, users could still use the system. Just
this morning our PDC failed with bad memory, yet users were unable to map
their network drive. The PDC is in our office while the file server is in
the server room where its been setup as a domain member. On the server room
subnet is its own BDC with its own ldap server. Checking the logs I see that
the server room BDC is listed as the local domain server. The only thing
that comes to mind is the BDC does point to the PDC as the wins server. Is
that the issue? Is there a way around it?

--
David Noriega
System Administrator
Computational Biology Initiative
High Performance Computing Center
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
Office: BSE 3.112
Phone: 210-458-7100
http://www.cbi.utsa.edu
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On 3/26/2012 9:27 AM, David Noriega wrote:
> Maybe my understanding is flawed but I thought the purpose of the BDC
> was in the case of the PDC going offline, users could still use the
> system. Just this morning our PDC failed with bad memory, yet users
> were unable to map their network drive. The PDC is in our office while
> the file server is in the server room where its been setup as a domain
> member. On the server room subnet is its own BDC with its own ldap
> server. Checking the logs I see that the server room BDC is listed as
> the local domain server. The only thing that comes to mind is the BDC
> does point to the PDC as the wins server. Is that the issue? Is there
> a way around it?
>
The PDC/BDC controls logging onto the network.
Network file shares are different, what server was hosting the "network 
drive"? If the PDC also hosted the network drive then they would also go 
down.