Hello, Our company is trying to implement central Windows Domain at HQ and replicated across all its regional offices. The implementation will have a PDC/LDAP-master on HQ and BDC/LDAP-slave on each regional office. In the hopes of saving bandwidth we are trying to avoid the use of WINS between WAN links. Is there any way of not using WINS and still have the clients find the PDC (for updating purposes as well as for redundancy)? I read on the Samba HOWTO that registering the name _ldap._tcp.pdc._msdcs.DOMAIN on the DNS will make users find the PDC, however I believe it only makes them find an Active Directory domain. Thanks,
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:56 -0600, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui wrote:> Hello, > > Our company is trying to implement central Windows Domain at HQ and > replicated across all its regional offices. The implementation will > have a PDC/LDAP-master on HQ and BDC/LDAP-slave on each regional > office. > > In the hopes of saving bandwidth we are trying to avoid the use of > WINS between WAN links. > > Is there any way of not using WINS and still have the clients find the > PDC (for updating purposes as well as for redundancy)?For updating purposes, you can declare each site to have it's own PDC, and let the LDAP layer handle the replication/data update issues. Provided the different 'PDC's can't see each other, they should not be bothered by this. This doesn't help with redundancy, but doing that over a WAN is pretty bad anyway. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20050708/bb3ecc15/attachment.bin
Pablo Gainza Cirauqui schrieb:> Hello, > > Our company is trying to implement central Windows Domain at HQ and > replicated across all its regional offices. The implementation will > have a PDC/LDAP-master on HQ and BDC/LDAP-slave on each regional > office. > > In the hopes of saving bandwidth we are trying to avoid the use of > WINS between WAN links.I don't know how big your network is, but if it's up to 100 computers, you'll probably save somethink like few kBytes per minute, if your WAN/VPN doesn't use compression, when the workstations are being turned on (after they are on, there should be less traffic). If it does use compression, it should be even less. Even if you use analog modems, it sholdn't be much. You can also use broadcasts instead of WINS, but it will mean more traffic than WINS. -- Tomek WPKG - automated software deployment with Samba http://wpkg.org