[Samba] store profiles on a third server

John Drescher
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:14:46 -0000

> However, I'd like to store the profiles on a third server.

I have had it this way for 5+ years at work. My PDC and BDCs exist as
openvz and lvm virtual machines that I can move to any server. Neither
of these contain any file shares.

> I know this is
> possible but I want to know were I can find a proper documentation or
> tutorial to do this.
>
> Here my questions to start
>
> - I probably have to install samba on this third server, neither as PDC or
> BDC, but Do I have to use special parameters ?
>
> - Should I use again NSS and LDAP on this third server for the
> authentication credentials database ?
>

Yes.

John