Hello! I configured samba BDC according to howto. PDC is in the same subnet. But I see that windows ( at least 2003 servers from the same subnet) sometimes connects to BDC to retrieve info about users. Now I use smbpasswd and machine accounts are in passwd. I'm afraid that will try to change their password too ;-) Could somebody explain me why windows behavoir?
Dmitry Melekhov wrote:> Hello! > > I configured samba BDC according to howto. > PDC is in the same subnet. > But I see that windows ( at least 2003 servers from the same subnet) > sometimes connects to BDC to retrieve info about users. > Now I use smbpasswd and machine accounts are in passwd. > I'm afraid that will try to change their password too ;-) > Could somebody explain me why windows behavoir? > >What did you expect to happen? BDC's are there to help spread the workload. Sometimes a client will authenticate against the PDC and sometimes it will go to a BDC - whichever responds first.
hi> I'm afraid that will try to change their password too ;-)clients will never attempt to change a password against BDCs either they're forwarded or the change will fail. micha Dmitry Melekhov wrote:> Hello! > > I configured samba BDC according to howto. > PDC is in the same subnet. > But I see that windows ( at least 2003 servers from the same subnet) > sometimes connects to BDC to retrieve info about users. > Now I use smbpasswd and machine accounts are in passwd. > I'm afraid that will try to change their password too ;-) > Could somebody explain me why windows behavoir? >
hi > I'm afraid that will try to change their password too ;-) clients will never attempt to change a password against BDCs either they're forwarded or the change will fail. micha Dmitry Melekhov wrote:> Hello! > > I configured samba BDC according to howto. > PDC is in the same subnet. > But I see that windows ( at least 2003 servers from the same subnet) > sometimes connects to BDC to retrieve info about users. > Now I use smbpasswd and machine accounts are in passwd. > I'm afraid that will try to change their password too ;-) > Could somebody explain me why windows behavoir? >