I am in the process of investigating whether it's viable to replace our NT server domain with a linux server domain using SAMBA. The key is if Samba can act as a PDC, with other Samba BDCs in remote locations. Is this possible? ---------------------------------------------- Gabriel Matthews gabriel@cinergycom.com Network Support Cinergy Communications When life hands you lemons, squeeze it into juice, put it in a watergun, and shoot it into people's eyes. -- Socrates
yes brad On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 17:39, Gabriel Matthews wrote:> I am in the process of investigating whether it's viable to replace our NT > server domain with a linux server domain using SAMBA. The key is if Samba > can act as a PDC, with other Samba BDCs in remote locations. Is this > possible? > > ---------------------------------------------- > Gabriel Matthews gabriel@cinergycom.com > Network Support Cinergy Communications > > When life hands you lemons, squeeze it into > juice, put it in a watergun, and shoot it into > people's eyes. -- Socrates > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > >
Yes, very possible. PDC and several BDC will work fine. Try this http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/ lots of good info and good tutorials. I don't know how many clients are in your organization, so BIG WARNING... you'll most probably have to re-create those user accounts and re-configure each PC to recognize new Domain. Also, there are certain things that work in NT that won't on SAMBA. Read the docs for more info. -----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Matthews [mailto:gabriel@cinergycom.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:39 PM To: Samba List Subject: [Samba] Samba running as PDC and BDC I am in the process of investigating whether it's viable to replace our NT server domain with a linux server domain using SAMBA. The key is if Samba can act as a PDC, with other Samba BDCs in remote locations. Is this possible? ---------------------------------------------- Gabriel Matthews gabriel@cinergycom.com Network Support Cinergy Communications When life hands you lemons, squeeze it into juice, put it in a watergun, and shoot it into people's eyes. -- Socrates -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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>That is what I was told also, so I'm surprised to be told otherwise.. Does >anyone know for sure?Samba 2.x can act as a BDC as long as the PDC is also Samba - the method is just making copies of the smbpasswd and other conf files via a UNIX method like scp, rsync, etc. - there's no support for a REAL NT-compatible PDC/BDC configuration yet. gdh