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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

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

I have a Samba-LDAP PDC at an office and 5 BDC's at other offices. At corporate HQ I have a W2k Server and domain. I have properly configured an interdomain trust and Users in the Samba domain can get to sections on the W2k machine regardless of location. However, members in the W2K domain can only access shares on the PDC. Attempts to access shares on a BDC cause a user name

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, Will BDC work if PDC crashes or there is no connectivity between them? I assume that the servers are storing users / passwords in LDAP database; both BDC and PDC have LDAP running locally (changes in PDC are replicated to BDC). Will users be able to log into the domain / use roaming profiles with no PDC (as it crashed or link was broken), when only BDC is running? Tomek

Hello all! First of all - I very new to Samba and don't really sure what i do all right. I'm ask some advise from community. I'm make this configuration in my company: PDC + Master LDAP: smb.conf: [global] # Base workgroup = hq netbios name = dc server string = DC Server security = domain hosts allow = 172.16.1. 192.168.1. 127. encrypt passwords = yes admin

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

Hello guys, i just wanted to ask about an idea, if it is feasible (or not). The company i work for (350 users) has 2 branches, that are interconnected with HQ via L2TP (encapsulated in IPsec) tunnels, that are setup in between Mikrotik routers. current setup: 300 users | HQ 192.168.2.0/23 | | Samba PDC + LDAP | | (389 DS) backend | | | | | / \ 30 users /

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

Hi: Can anybody point me to some guidelines about SMB network design or give some advice? Samba HOWTOs are very detailed recipes, but I need some general tips, like if we are serving fish or pasta tonight :-) This is the situation: a WAN with 20 offices with 2 to 30 people in each, plus a headquarter with 50 people, plus the databases and central file servers. The organization grew up on a NT4

hi: our company want to use samba3+openldap with singal sign on. we have several branches.people would travel arround head quarter and branches with their notebooks. so we don't have roaming users, but we do have roaming computers. we want to use a single domain for every site, and we want every site keep working even when wan link is broken. my plan below: 1. place

Hi, (this will be a long post) currently we got a working setup of one PDC in our HQ and five BDC in our branch offices, all backed by LDAP. PDC is LDAP master and all branch offices are configured as syncrepl. This setup was more a playfield for me, which 'suddenly' went into production by business needs, you know the deal... The setup does a fine job, but there is no failover of any

Hi, Does someone know how will all my client machines find the BDC when the PDC is stopped. Both PDC and BDC are running Samba with LDAPSAM backend replicated on both the PDC with master LDAP database and BDC with replicated LDAP database. But when I stop PDC the clients are not detecting the BDC broadcast. The replication on all domain controllers are perfect. I went as far as making BDC

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

I have a RH 7.2 PDC which uses DHCP for 2 machines on the network. My Win9x machine as a client/BDC just in case and uses a static IP. If the PDC goes down. I have to put in or take out the PDC's gateway IP and was wondering if there was a way to get ONLY the info I need from DHCP to the Win machine. To attempt to clarify, when the PDC is up, it will assign its gateway IP to the BDC (since it

Hallo, I've setup a BDC in the same subnet like my PDC. I observed that some User take the BDC to logon. The Domain-Join of some PCs will also done at the BDC. Is this behavior normal and wanted? If done so, I have to rsync the profiles or only netlogon? Best regards Matthias PDC: [global] netbios name = PDC workgroup = MyDOMAIN server string = DC (PDC) (%v)

Hey list, I've got a problem with my PDC/BDC setup. They're both running 3.0.23c on Sarge, and I've verified that both the PDC and BDC will authenticate users. test-pdc:/etc/samba# testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[netlogon]" Loaded services file OK. Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC test-bdc:/var/log/samba# testparm Load smb config

Hi I have a PDC/BDC samba/ldap environment. PDC: samba 3.0.24 slapd 2.3.30 BDC: samba 3.2.5 slapd 2.4.11 Ldap replication is working fine, but I have noticed two issues 1- when a windows user change password on BDC, sambaPwdMustChange and sambaPwdCanChange is not synced on PDC (using ldap passwd sync = yes and unix password sync = no) 2- when using 'net sam set pwdmustchange' on

Hello folks, The documentation for running Samba as a BDC clearly states that it is not operational with a Windows PDC [1], but this documentation covers Samba-3 and it was suggested in IRC by scooby2 that this functionality is now suported in Samba 4. Can anyone else confirm this? Should I use the documentation for Smaba BDC or is there more current documentation for this functionality?

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