samba - Nov 2010 - samba as PDC, win 2003 as bdc

Hello,

is it possible to add a wind 2003 machine as BDC to a samba domain.
Is documentation documentation available ?

Thanks
Andreas

> is it possible to add a wind 2003 machine as BDC to a samba domain.

The Samba3-HOWTO, Chapter 5, contains the following:

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Samba-3 cannot participate in true SAM replication and is therefore not 
able to employ precisely the same protocols used by MS Windows NT4. A 
Samba-3 BDC will not create SAM update delta files. It will not 
interoperate with a PDC (NT4 or Samba) to synchronize the SAM from delta 
files that are held by BDCs.
Samba-3 cannot function as a BDC to an MS Windows NT4 PDC, and Samba-3 
cannot function correctly as a PDC to an MS Windows NT4 BDC. Both 
Samba-3 and MS Windows NT4 can function as a BDC to its own type of PDC.
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> Is documentation documentation available ?
Yes. You can start with:

The Official Samba 3.5.x HOWTO and Reference Guide
Samba3 By Example

Both come with the Samba packages, in HTML and PDF formats, or can be 
viewed online at www.samba.org.

Hi

On 13 November 2010 18:32, Andreas Moroder <andreas.moroder at gmx.net>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to add a wind 2003 machine as BDC to a samba domain.
> Is documentation documentation available ?
Samba 3 can work as an NT-style PDC, but does not support the native
PDC<->BDC replication protocol, so as Miguel said you can't have a
Samba 3 PDC and a Windows 2003 BDC.  (You also can't have Samba 3 as a
BDC.)

Samba 4 works as an Active Directory domain controller and supports
replication to other DCs using the native Active Directory replication
protocols.  So it works with other Samba 4 DCs and also Windows DCs.
It is, however, still alpha software, so if you find something doesn't
work, post to the samba-technical mailing list.

See the Samba 4 HOWTO for details:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO

See also:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/FAQ
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/videos#Demo4_:_dcpromo

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Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>