Hi, i have a samba server as PDC in my office. Now, some co-workers wants to access their files from outside. Making a VPN does not work because my office has a crappy connection. Is it possible to install a BDC in a datacenter for the remote people?
sure you can if you are using an LDAP directory. just how crappy is your connection? because the BDC would need to either query the PDC's ldap directory directly, or be a slave (or master/master) and get account changes propagated to it. Then, you'd still need to get access to the files somehow such as using distributed filesystem (which would still get the files from your server and go over your low latency connection in real time) or mirror the files to your BDC using unison. Is there not money in your budget to upgrade your crappy connection? Are there things you can do to make your connection not as crappy such as installing a squid http proxy server? is your connection crappy because it is at 100% utilization or crappy because it goes up and down? Germ?n Bobr wrote:> Hi, i have a samba server as PDC in my office. > Now, some co-workers wants to access their files from outside. > Making a VPN does not work because my office has a crappy connection. > > Is it possible to install a BDC in a datacenter for the remote people? > >
El vie, 24-04-2009 a las 14:22 -0500, Adam Williams escribi?:> > Germ?n Bobr wrote: > > My connection is very crappy because it is only 128 kbps upload... > > > > In this city there is nothing better than that, so i cannot upgrade the > > connection. > > > > I was thinking about renting a VPS in a datacenter with 4 or 5 mbps both > > sided. > > > > It will not have heavy usage, but people doesnt want to wait 30 minutes > > just for synchronizing Mydocs and Desktop > > > > Thanks > > you can redirect my documents by right clicking on it and specifying a > location on a shared drive, that way it will not have to load it in a > roaming profile. also you can redirect the desktop, application data, > etc folders via registry hacking. i think its page 212 or so of samba 3 > by example.pdf >I am doing exactly that. Folder redirection, My Docs and desktop. But i have some users that want to acces their files from their home desktop computers. At 128 kbps the remote access to the files is a hell. And laptop users have to wait the sinchronization every time they connect to the VPN. (Samba PDC will not allow an user to acces the shares if it is not logged and sinched) I hope this will be a better explanation :P My english is not realy good. Thanks to all German