Hello: I have set up a PDC using Samba 3.0.11 with openldap 2.2.23. I have set up a BDC as well (the smb.conf is same as those on PDC except the nebios name as "BDC" and the domain master is set as "no"). Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether the client login through the BDC. I found that my client (on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC, but it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to client PC machine. How can i solve this problem? I check that my openldap has kept the user samba account information in which the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes and //PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC, it is failed to find the //PDC/homes and //PDC/profiles? Thanks a lot! Carmen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
>Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether the >client login through the BDC. I found that my client >(on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC, but > >Makes sense>it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user >profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to >client PC machine. > >Also makes sense.>the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes and >//PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC, it is >failed to find the //PDC/homes and //PDC/profiles? > >If your pdc has gone down you will most certainly have a problem mounting drives/accessing files on that machine, just as when any other server goes down you can't access services hosted on it. If this is your goal, you need to find some way to make the pdc/home data highly available, such as storing them on a seperate server that the users are then pointed to for the data. There are many ways to go about doing this, you just need to find the way that works best for your situation. -- Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 Applied Engineering Inc. Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: pgienger@ae-solutions.com
Dear Paul: Would you show me how can I implement the BDC so that the user can mount to the BDC home and get the profile on BDC instead when the PDC is down?? Thanks a lot! Carmen --- Paul Gienger <pgienger@ae-solutions.com> wrote:> > >Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether the > >client login through the BDC. I found that my > client > >(on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC, > but > > > > > Makes sense > > >it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user > >profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to > >client PC machine. > > > > > Also makes sense. > > >the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes > and > >//PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC, it > is > >failed to find the //PDC/homes and //PDC/profiles? > > > > > If your pdc has gone down you will most certainly > have a problem > mounting drives/accessing files on that machine, > just as when any other > server goes down you can't access services hosted on > it. If this is > your goal, you need to find some way to make the > pdc/home data highly > available, such as storing them on a seperate server > that the users are > then pointed to for the data. There are many ways > to go about doing > this, you just need to find the way that works best > for your situation. > > -- > Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 > Applied Engineering Inc. > Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 > URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: > pgienger@ae-solutions.com > > > >__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
My problem is that when my PDC is down, my BDC can pick up the user authorization but is not able to help client to mount to the home directory. I am using openldap to store user account, I found the samba home drive entry in the openldap as //PDC/homes. I don't know whether this prevent my BDC to help client to mount to the //BDC/homes instead... Do anyone know how to solve this?? Thanks a lot! Carmen --- Gémes Géza <geza@kzsdabas.sulinet.hu> wrote:> I would suggest to rsync the profile and home shares > periodically, > between DCs, of course it would mean a lot of disk > space waste :-( > > Cheers > > Geza > > >Dear Paul: > > > >Would you show me how can I implement the BDC so > that > >the user can mount to the BDC home and get the > profile > >on BDC instead when the PDC is down?? > > > >Thanks a lot! > >Carmen > > > >--- Paul Gienger <pgienger@ae-solutions.com> wrote: > > > > > >>>Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether > the > >>>client login through the BDC. I found that my > >>> > >>> > >>client > >> > >> > >>>(on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC, > >>> > >>> > >>but > >> > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Makes sense > >> > >> > >> > >>>it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user > >>>profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to > >>>client PC machine. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Also makes sense. > >> > >> > >> > >>>the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes > >>> > >>> > >>and > >> > >> > >>>//PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC, > it > >>> > >>> > >>is > >> > >> > >>>failed to find the //PDC/homes and > //PDC/profiles? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>If your pdc has gone down you will most certainly > >>have a problem > >>mounting drives/accessing files on that machine, > >>just as when any other > >>server goes down you can't access services hosted > on > >>it. If this is > >>your goal, you need to find some way to make the > >>pdc/home data highly > >>available, such as storing them on a seperate > server > >>that the users are > >>then pointed to for the data. There are many ways > >>to go about doing > >>this, you just need to find the way that works > best > >>for your situation. > >> > >>-- > >>Paul Gienger Office: > 701-281-1884 > >>Applied Engineering Inc. > >>Systems Architect Fax: > 701-281-1322 > >>URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: > >>pgienger@ae-solutions.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > >http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > > > > > >__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/