samba - May 2002 - using samba to replace bdc with nt4 pdc

Anyone here used samba to carte blanche replace an NT4 BDC? I have a client 
that I am putting in a new server to replace the current PDC. As they have no 
BDC, it would be nice to use linux on the old server and avoid having to go 
buy more MS licenses.  I do remember there being problems with this scenario 
back in the pre Samba 2.2.x days. Can anyone enlighten me from your recent 
experience(s)? 


Having a read of some of the docs, I come across this:

Can Samba be a Backup Domain Controller?
With version 2.2, no. The native NT SAM replication protocols have not yet 
been fully implemented. The Samba Team is working on understanding and 
implementing the protocols, but this work has not been finished for version 
2.2.

Does anyone know, how much futher along this process is, or should I just 
shelve the whole idea for now?
-- 
Harondel J. Sibble 
Sibble Computer Consulting
Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user.
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for the moment samba cannot act as a real BDC....
but if you are talking of migrating the actual PDC to a samba then you can
"emulate" the functions of a real BDC .
i think that there is a HowTo in the samba Docs..


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harondel J. Sibble" <help@pdscc.com>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:40 PM
Subject: [Samba] using samba to replace bdc with nt4 pdc

> Anyone here used samba to carte blanche replace an NT4 BDC? I have a
client
> that I am putting in a new server to replace the current PDC. As they have
no
> BDC, it would be nice to use linux on the old server and avoid having to
go
> buy more MS licenses.  I do remember there being problems with this
scenario
> back in the pre Samba 2.2.x days. Can anyone enlighten me from your recent
> experience(s)?
>
>
> Having a read of some of the docs, I come across this:
>
> Can Samba be a Backup Domain Controller?
> With version 2.2, no. The native NT SAM replication protocols have not yet
> been fully implemented. The Samba Team is working on understanding and
> implementing the protocols, but this work has not been finished for
version
> 2.2.
>
> Does anyone know, how much futher along this process is, or should I just
> shelve the whole idea for now?
> --
> Harondel J. Sibble
> Sibble Computer Consulting
> Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user.
> help@pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com
> (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax)      (604) 686-2253 (pager)
>
>
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