samba - Mar 2004 - [profiles] server seperate from PDC ?

Hi!

Due to performance problems (old donated hardware) I would like
to move [profiles] service from our Samba 2.2.8a PDC to a seperate
samba server.

1) Is this at all possible and
   1b) how do I make this profile server know all necessary user
       data and file permissions? - Does it simply have to become
       a domain member server? Or do I have to transfer the UNIX
       accounts, too?
or
2) are there better alternatives?

Thanks for all ideas or hints. Please tell me if you need more
information.

Regards,

Uli.


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		|   Peter Ulrich Kruppa   |
		|      - Wuppertal -      |
		|         Germany         |
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Hello,
> Due to performance problems (old donated hardware) I would like
> to move [profiles] service from our Samba 2.2.8a PDC to a seperate
> samba server.
>
> 1) Is this at all possible and
Jep.
>    1b) how do I make this profile server know all necessary user
>        data and file permissions? - Does it simply have to become
>        a domain member server? Or do I have to transfer the UNIX
>        accounts, too?
> or
> 2) are there better alternatives?
Let the Profile-Server join the domain and generate a share for the
profiles.

Then mount this share at the old server and move the
profiles with all permissions to the new server. Now umount and
configure "profile path" in the smb.conf.

For an easy sharing of Unix-Accounts use LDAP. There's a great article
in the present german iX-magazine (March 04).

matze