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: ? 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. ?> 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 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: wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO See also: wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/FAQ wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/videos#Demo4_:_dcpromo -- Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>