hi, i have no experience in configure any of the BDC before. just curious to ask, if i have configured a BDC, then if any fail down of my PDC, does BDC will take turn automatically??? stupid question.... but, i didnt know it... sorry....
Short Answer: If you are using samba and storing user accounts on samba then no, you will need to rsync your home folders to the backup and do a few modifications on the BDC to make it the PDC. Your best bet to accomplish a failover for domain authentication is to set-up an LDAP master server, and then create slave-servers for fail over. Advantages are that you can have many slave servers through out your network.If your master fails the clients will search for the nearest slave server to authenticate --mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hiu Yen Onn" <yohiu@shinyang.com.my> To: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 6:38 PM Subject: [Samba] Samba BDC for Backup> hi, > > i have no experience in configure any of the BDC before. just curious to > ask, if i have configured a BDC, then if any fail down of my PDC, does BDC > will take turn automatically??? stupid question.... but, i didnt know > it... sorry.... > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Hiu Yen Onn wrote:> hi, > > i have no experience in configure any of the BDC before. just curious > to ask, if i have configured a BDC, then if any fail down of my PDC, > does BDC will take turn automatically??? stupid question.... but, i > didnt know it... sorry....another question 1. I have a master ldap tree for my PDC, likewise my BDC also having a slave ldap tree, do i need to replicate the master ldap to the slave ldap? 2. How about the sid number??? does PDC sid have to be similar to the BDC sid??? what is sid? what does is working for??? dun understand... pls enlighten.. thanks..
Hiu Yen Onn wrote:> Hiu Yen Onn wrote: > >> hi, >> >> i have no experience in configure any of the BDC before. just curious >> to ask, if i have configured a BDC, then if any fail down of my PDC, >> does BDC will take turn automatically??? stupid question.... but, i >> didnt know it... sorry.... > > > another question > > 1. I have a master ldap tree for my PDC, likewise my BDC also having a > slave ldap tree, do i need to replicate the master ldap to the slave > ldap? > > 2. How about the sid number??? does PDC sid have to be similar to the > BDC sid??? what is sid? what does is working for??? dun understand... > pls enlighten.. thanks.. > >do i need to configure a NIS master and NIS slave for my pdc, and bdc??? if not, i am wondering how can a user in pdc can be appeared to a bdc??? pls advise thanks