samba - Nov 2005 - home folders query

hi everyone.

i'm in the middle of setting up a test network to see if we can move our
students over to samba next year.

i have a question regarding home folders, and i suppose which would be my best
route.

we have a big mac raid system which i would like to implement for home folders,
but i want to keep the samba PDC on a separate machine.

would it be better if i were to setup the mac as a samba fileserver with the
home folders on, *or* would it be better to connect using nfs to the home
folders from the samba pdc?

ie.

client ----> samba pdc
       +---> samba home folders pc

or

client ----> samba pdc ----> nfs map to home folders pc

anyone have any thoughts on which would be the quickest and easiest option?
i'm tempted with the first but haven't set up samba home folders on a
non-pdc before, if that is the better route then is it possible to do that?

thank you very much for reading! :-)

john

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there should be no problem setting up home folders on a non-pdc
samba server.  i have such a setup and it works without any problems.

as long as you get account authentication working between the file 
server and the pdc, it should work.  check out the special share [homes]

in the samba documentation.

good luck.

/franz