All, I have a site with around 200 concurrent users, with a user count of over a thousand... I'm currently using just one PDC using the smbpasswd backend. I currently do not want to go into an LDAP backend... but would tdbsam be a better alternative? One of the issues I have is, pretty randomly, I have some machines that cannot find the domain controller (dell wireless card utility tells you it cant via login). I'm guessing its because when I grep on 'corrupt' from /var/log/messages, I have many errors because of poor account managment. (exists in smbpaswd but not unix /etc/passwd. ) Thanks for the support.
According to the Samba documentation, smbpasswd is not even recommended for a PDC...
I was asking the same question not too many days ago. I went with LDAP. It is not as difficult as some people think. It seems somewhat daunting at first but then you quickly get the grasp of it. It simply *works* and solves *a lot* of challenges at the same time, leaving you ready for future expansion.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think you want tdbsam. There's virtually no downside. =R Aaron Souza wrote:> All, I have a site with around 200 concurrent users, with a user count of > over a thousand... I'm currently using just one PDC using the smbpasswd > backend. I currently do not want to go into an LDAP backend... but would > tdbsam be a better alternative? > > One of the issues I have is, pretty randomly, I have some machines that > cannot find the domain controller (dell wireless card utility tells you it > cant via login). I'm guessing its because when I grep on 'corrupt' from > /var/log/messages, I have many errors because of poor account managment. > (exists in smbpaswd but not unix /etc/passwd. ) > > Thanks for the support.- -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl6QPwACgkQmb+gadEcsb6fsACgqj0/d95xcq/DalFPRljbkhk7 v3kAoMesOSdMaYct3YROfNmPi9DY6Ob2 =Y9XA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----