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Hello, Our company is trying to implement central Windows Domain at HQ and replicated across all its regional offices. The implementation will have a PDC/LDAP-master on HQ and BDC/LDAP-slave on each regional office. In the hopes of saving bandwidth we are trying to avoid the use of WINS between WAN links. Is there any way of not using WINS and still have the clients find the PDC (for updating

Hello, I just configured Samba 3 PDC + LDAP. The aim is to have a Samba 3 PDC + LDAP in each branch office; and there should be one user/password database. There are about 20 branch offices in different locations and users travel a lot between them with laptops. Each branch office has a below configuration: - Samba 3 PDC - slave OpenLDAP server There is also one central user/password

I have two serves set up. One will be my PDC (master) and the other will be my BDC (slave). I have openldap setup and replicating the data between the two servers. Everything seems to work fine from the Master, but I have one problem with the slave. From the slave, I can do an ldapsearch and everthing is fine. But when I do a 'pdbedit -L', I get the following: Unknown parameter

Hi Samabatistas, I have a ldap smb pdc and a ldap smb bdc in a different subnetc. connected via a vpn Users work at the place of the pdc have their home and their profile there, Users working on the place of the bdc have their home and their profile on the bdc. I did this with editing their ldap attr. on the pdcs ldap master this works like charme, but sometimes the automatic home drive mapping

Hello, If I have a PDC with a netbios name FIRST, and I want to add a BDC - named SECOND - do these machines need to have the same SIDs, or different (I just copied files / settings from PDC to BDC and I'm not sure what to do next)? Tomek

I am hoping someone can help here. I noticed a really odd issue. WINS resolution doesn't seem to work between my PDC and BDC, both Samba 3.0.14a boxes running on Debian. I have nsswitch.conf configured properly, I think. Here are the nsswitch.conf settings. PDC: hosts: files dns wins BDC: hosts: files dns wins On the BDC, I have the parameter wins server = 192.168.0.2, the address

We're about to start migrating from Windows NT 4.0 to a Samba controlled setup. I've got a question about the functionality of the Samba PDCs and BDCs. In my Windows setup I have three domains that are defined by geographic locations. Each of these domains "trusts" the other. In Samba 2.2.7, I can't have the trusts, so I'm looking at creating one giant domain that

I've been fiddling lately with Samba 3 coupled with openldap, nss_ldap, pam_ldap and the smbldap-tools to create a PDC. Following various examples, most things work, but I have an issue with changing passwords from Windows. If I manually change a password with smbldap-passwd, the script correctly adjusts the sambaPwdMustChange attribute according to what defaultMaxPasswordAge is set to. If

Hi, PDC works fine, but Samba BDC doesn't make its job. In srvmgr.exe PDC, BDC appear, but when I kill smb PDC's process, normaly BDC may give a response to smb request. My problem... BDC do not respond, no PDC :: no authentification. any idea. my smb.conf : [global] # Main Config. netbios name = LYS workgroup = TNN server string = Lys (TNN's PDC) security = user domain

I'm in the process of building a Samba PDC for my office, and I have a couple of questions. We have three regional offices connected via VPN. We'd like to have network browsing across all three network, with a single login. I was going to do a Samba machine with an LDAP backend on the same machine. So would it be advisable to have the PDC at the main office and BDC at each of the regional

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good Moring list I already possess PDC + LDAP. Today the necessity appeared to possess a BDC, but users in base LDAP would like to legalize all, and mine configuracao follows below: [global] ~ workgroup = AURORA ~ netbios name = fly ~ server string = Marcio(CPD) ~ passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://121.1.16.245 ~

Dear Help, We are currently running Samba 3.0.22 on a distributed network/domain as a PDC (primary domain controller) and several as BDCs (Backup domain controllers) in our branch offices located around the country. At this point, the PDC is set up in our corporate office (where I'm located) and users have no trouble authenticating (via logging into windows and accessing shares) and also

Hi, I have a problem with setting up quota usage tracking for domains. Problem is, that domain quota is always based on only one user in domain, the last one on whom behalf any operation was performed. To recreate this situation, one has only to perform: doveadm quota recalc -u USER on a user, and the domain quota takes the value of this user quota. Have anyone a clue what could cause this

Hello I makeing a Domain Controller with Samba (v3.0.33) and LDAP (v2.4). I will install a PDC in the headquarter and a BDC in the subsidiary of the company that I work. The PDC and the BDC will have his own LDAP data base. I just install the PDC without problems and my next step is to install the BDC. I configured the LDAP that work in multi master mode. I made some test and the LDAP works

Hello, I have the following test setup: 1) Samba3 + slave OpenLDAP - the same PC, win2k in same LAN 2) OpenLDAP master OpenLDAP slave and master are divided by a rather slow internet VPN link. Whenever I want to add a PC to a domain, I have to do it twice - with first time I get an error on a client side, second join is successful. I guess it's because master and slave are divided by

I have no trouble joining the domain in our main office(samba PDC) or a branch office(samba BDC) but for some reason I can't join the domain at the branch office 2(also samba BDC) All three offices are running 3.0.11 and the 2 branch offices have identical configurations, aside from ip address'. The message I get from Windows XP is: The following error occured attempting to join the

Hello, This post is similar to what I posted yesterday '"smbclient -L host" to list IP addresses - possible?'. I have a PDC in one place and many workstations in different other places connected using WAN/VPN. These workstations have rather changing IPs assigned by DHCP. Sometimes I need to connect to these machines using VNC, for example, connect to machine AC-PC001 to

hi list&john, i read in the documention about BDCs: The domain SID has to be the same on the PDC and the BDC. In Samba versions pre-2.2.5, the domain SID was stored in the file |private/MACHINE.SID|. For all versions of Samba released since 2.2.5 the domain SID is stored in the file |private/secrets.tdb|. This file is unique to each server and cannot be copied from a PDC to a BDC; the BDC

Hi guys Im looking to config a BDC server for the high traffic supported inside the primary server. I never configured a BDC server inside ubuntu 9.04 and OpenLdap and Im very lost. Looking for internet I found howtos for PDCs server but not for BDC. Anyone can help me more? Im making a clean install and I don't know how to create same users than PDC for samba and how to make a slave ldap

Hi all, I have this question, I ve got a master LDAP server on a remote place and i want to install a PDC and a BDC and a slave ldap server in other place. Mi question is... may I force de WorkStations logging (read the information )against the BDC first than PDC, so the READ trafic goes to the Slave Ldap??? The problem is the network avoid READ traffic. In the Samba FAQ recomends that the: