samba - Dec 2004 - PDC/BDC design question

I'm in the process of building a Samba PDC for my office, and I have a
couple of questions. We have three regional offices connected via VPN.
We'd like to have network browsing across all three network, with a
single login. I was going to do a Samba machine with an LDAP backend on
the same machine. So would it be advisable to have the PDC at the main
office and BDC at each of the regional offices? Also should I have slave
LDAP server with each of the BDC's?

David Sonenberg
Systems / Network Administrator
Stroz Friedberg, LLC
15 Maiden Lane, Suite 1208
New York, NY  10038
212.981.6527 (o)  |  917.495.4918 (c)

> I'm in the process of building a Samba PDC for my office, and I have a
> couple of questions. We have three regional offices connected via VPN.
> We'd like to have network browsing across all three network, with a
> single login. I was going to do a Samba machine with an LDAP backend on
> the same machine. So would it be advisable to have the PDC at the main
> office and BDC at each of the regional offices? 
That is the traditional route;  you can also store each user's roaming
profile on the server nearest them.
> Also should I have slave LDAP server with each of the BDC's?
Absolutely, yes.