Hi all, Currently i have a PDC and BDC NT Domain servers! I need to setup a smb server as another BDC for the domain. how will i go about to setup the smb server as a secondary BDC for the nt domain? Regards, Lohan Spies Systems Administrator CSA / DBA / MCP IQ Business <http://www.iqgroup.net/> Group Tel: +27 12 521 7309 Fax: +27 12 541 3441 Cell: +27 83 258 2698 l.spies@petzetakis-africa.co.za CONFIDENTIALITY CAUTION: If you have received this communication in error, please note that it is intended for the addressee only, is private and confidential and dissemination or copying prohibited. Please notify us immediately by e-mail and return the original message. We cannot assure that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that it is free of errors, virus, interception or interference. Thank you
"Lohan Spies" <l.spies@petzetakis.co.za> wrote in message news:!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAHvCSmpkyA0+lP5YKpr7djsKAAAAQAAAATkTraxTx10OEZPkXuVx4uAEAAAAA@petzetakis-africa.co.za...> Hi all, > > Currently i have a PDC and BDC NT Domain servers! > > I need to setup a smb server as another BDC for the domain. > > how will i go about to setup the smb server as a secondary BDC for the > nt domain?It is not possible to use a Samba server as a BDC for a NT server. It is not possible to use a Samba server as a domain controller in a Windows 2000 domain. However you can use a Samba server as a BDC for another Samba server if you use LDAP as the user information backend. You can also use a Samba server as a member server in a NT or Windows 2000 domain.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Lohan Spies wrote:> Hi all, > > Currently i have a PDC and BDC NT Domain servers! > > I need to setup a smb server as another BDC for the domain. > > how will i go about to setup the smb server as a secondary BDC for the > nt domain?Have you read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf? http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf There is a whole chapter on NT4Migration. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org