Hello Samba mailing list, I have been really digging into Samba AD and active Directory internal workings. It occurs to me that I could store rsync replication information inside of the ldap domain. I am still learning ldap but theoretically it should be a matter of extending the schema to include a rsync key and network path. It could be configured so that the the Samba DC with the FSMO role will automatically startup rsync as a server. From there all the of the other domain controllers could read the ldap data and then run rsync to pull from the fsmo master. As anyone tried this or is this something that has been considered? Samba already works with NTP and this theoretically wouldn't be any different. It would add complexity and would require that the domain controllers have rsync. What do you think, Darin