>I am trying to set up an additional domain server within? my network
>using SAMBA and LDAP.? There's a problem that I think is with LDAP.? If
>any of you have set up a system like this, I would appreciate your
>expertise.
>
What does your current setup look like? What have you already established?
>Question # 1:? My PDC, which controls the domain and SAMBA, should
>clearly use LDAP server.? Should the additional server use SAMBA server
>or client?? Workstations will sign onto the domain and then onto shares
>on both the PDC and the additional server.
>
LDAP and Samba is much like AD and Windows-Servers, only with the old Domain
like PDC/BDC setup instead of the DC setup. By using LDAP you can share e.g.
user, group, machine accounts between different linux/ samba servers. So you
only have to add/change/modify the LDAP based data once and it will be
distributed to all participating linux servers.
>Question # 2:? If I copy the / directory to a flash drive, can I just
>copy it back to the hard drive if I end up with a configuration
>impossibility?? I've had to reload the system once already because of
>LDAP configuration problems, and I'd rather not do it again.
>
>The SAMBA shares on the PDC are working fine.? But I can't share thing
>on the other server unless I set up a smbpasswd set, and that's a pain.
>
Well, you copied your configuration to the second server? Did you configure your
LDAP-server to replicate data with each other?
You only need to backup you /etc directory, because that's where the
configuration is stored. If you misconfigured something, you can easily go back
to the previous state by restoring the old configuration files.
Cheers,
Christian
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