similar to: Simple Samba PDC - tdbsam limitations?

The documentation says "As a general guide, the Samba Team does not recommend using the tdbsam backend for sites that have 250 or more users". Since we moved default passbd backend to tdbsam, does that statements still holds true. As an FYI, I am using Samba-3.2.4, idmap_rid with tdbsam as backend for about 3 years with 2000 users on member server configuration authenticating AD 2003.

Hi I am vinod, I want to set up simple Samba PDC using tdbsam password backend. samba is installed on fedora 8 GNU/Linux. my network is about 30 windowsXP Pro. SP-2 static IP addressed machines. total no users about : *40* my network is : *192.168.1.* samba server is *: 192.168.1.10* windowsXP Pro. SP-2 clients : *192.168.1.11* to *192.168.1.40 *I want the users to be able to

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to implement a samba domain in a number of remote offices around the world with partly bad and often interrupted WAN connections/VPNs. The goal is to administer the directory from the central data center. My obvious choice would be to set up a central server with SAMBA+OpenLDAP+smbldap-tools and in each remote office a SAMBA server with OpenLDAP as a

Hi all, I'm under the gun to rid ourselves of the nt4 PDC which we currently use. options are A/D, samba, pgina. I really dig pgina, but dont think I can pass citrix credentials properly :( So I'm left with samba vs A/D. A/D is well,, ummmmm A/D, so tyring to avoid it. Currently have used Samba file servers for years. Have played with Samba PDC with2.2 Now, going to try

I didn't get any answers so I try again: I am using tdbsam as passdb backand. I have added root user with pdbedit. The machine trust account was added on the fly. I have added the user with pdbedit. I have created the user in /etc/passwd. When the user logs in from a W2k and mounts the home-directory I noticed that Samba didn't take the home-directory information from tdbsam, it

I was wondering how people sync the roaming profiles in an environment with a PDC and multiple BDCs. Are profiles better stored in another server (a member server) instead of the xDC? I could use rsync from the PDC to the BDC, but that doesn't work the other way around, i.e., when a user logs in via a BDC whatever changes they make won't go back to the PDC. Unless the profile is: - always

Hello According to NT4 Migration Using tdbsam Backend http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ntmigration.html#id2604610 I would like to transfer PDC settings (users,groups sids) to BDC and later make from BDC PDC machine. I have Fedora Core 7 PDC(hostname serwer) and Centos 5.4 BDC (hostname serwer2) both on tdbsam backends. I have copied smb.conf, passwd,group,shadow,secrets.tdb files

Hi, We have an old domain with a samba-3 PDC and LDAP backend in our HQ and two BDC in our branch offices. Since we don't use the domain in our HQ anymore and one of the branches will be moved to our new domain (2003/2008) I'm thinking about decomissioning the PDC and promote both BDCs as PDC for their branch offices and networks. I would also get rid of LDAP. Changing the backend to

Hi all, I've been using samba for a few years now on a couple of file servers with a tdbsam backend for our user accounts. We use openldap for the vast majority of our identity management, so I would love to be able to tie into this. We recently started using sambaNTPassword in openldap for radius authentication, so this is populated for most of our users now. >From reading through

Help... I'm running Samba v3.0.25b, recently upgraded. I use tdbsam, winbindd etc. The Samba machine is a PDC. If the machine is FRED and the domain is HOME, should I set up a machine account for FRED and join that to the HOME domain ? Should the machine FRED have its own domain SID ? Or... is are the machine FRED and the domain HOME one and the same ? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Hall

Help... I'm running Samba v3.0.25b, recently upgraded from v3.0.23a. I use tdbsam, winbindd etc. Winbind appears to be broken. When I do: * getent passwd none of the DOMAIN\xxxx users are listed * getent group the BUILTIN\administrators and BUILTIN\users groups are listed, but none of the DOMAIN\xxxx groups * wbinfo -u gives an enigmatic "Error

I'm setting up a new domain with Samba 3.0.30 as the PDC using the tdbsam backend. 'net group' yields an empty list, which is consistent with the cautious appoach that Samba takes: don't do anything automagically. But, a new Windows PDC will come online with several well-known domain users and groups. Did I miss the step where I run some stock script that creates these expected

Hello everyone, the time for me to use a OpenLDAP server is getting closer ( :( yikes..I'm still scared sorta) , I currently have a Samba PDC with tdbsam with 50 users goes fine, our company will grow (doing our best) in this year by a minimum of 25-30 computers, and I've stuided the TOSHARG , and it says that for every 50 computer a bdc is suggested. The questions : 1.how does

Hy, I have set up a samba PDC with tdbsam, for a office, everything seems to be ok, users logon to the pcs with their user domains, the policies are working ok, but once they login, when they try to access a share in the samba pdc server, it asks againg for user and passwd, Any idea why its doing this?, you cant access also the netlog on share, so no scripts are working :**. Another doubdt i

Can anybody give me a hint how to set up Samba BDC(RedHat 9.0) with rsync-ing WIN-NT PDC so that if WIN-NT PDC is down all the clients can still get Authentication service from Samba BDC(RedHat 9.0). i have seen in Samba documentation that it can be done using rsync but nowhwere it is clearly explained howto do it.. I ran out of gas by looking through google also... :-( With Best Regards YS

People, I have one PDC and a BDC on the matrix side and two BDCs on the branch office. I don't know if it is a problem. Anybody could help me? PDC # net rpc testjoin get_schannel_session_key: could not fetch trust account password for domain 'DOMAIN_NAME' net_rpc_join_ok: failed to get schannel session key from server PDC for domain DOMAIN_NAME. Error was

I need to migrate from samba w/LDAP 2.2.8a to 3.0.1pre3 with tdbsam. Any suggestions how to keep from having to change all the profiles? I have read through chapter 30 of the HOWTO but it assumes keeping the same backend. I need support to munge_dial and that is not available without mysql or tdbsam.... Thanks in advance for your help. Sean

How much of a resource hog is a PDC? My understanding is that authentication is done vs a BDC if available. I configured my new file server as the domain PDC because I figured it would already have to run samba. I have two other machines configured as BDCs to serve as logon servers. I'm looking for opinions on whether I'm asking for performance problems by making my file server the

Hello According to my post "samba migration to another distro llinux" on samba lists I would like to make migration of samba from one machine to another. I can't find information how to transfer accounts,policies,users,domain SID and other options from PDC (tdbsam backend)(current server) to BDC (tdbsam backend)future server. I found some info but its about migration from

Running Samba 3.x with tdbsam. Its a small nework of 4 Windwos XP machines. Having a little trouble adding the machines to the domain. pdbedit shows duplication machines names and such. Since its such a small number of machines, want to just start over with a fresh tdbsam as it seems faster then trying to clean it up. Can we just delete the existing tdbsam? Stop and restart Samba and