similar to: Change a Samba PDC to BDC on the fly?

All, I'm using an LDAP backend for a test PDC/BDC setup. Both the PDC and BDC are using the same LDAP server. Both the PDC and BDC are running 3.0.23c on Sarge, and I've verified that both the PDC and BDC will authenticate users via smbclient. XP clients are able to login to the domain fine, and all is generally swell. My PDC is also my WINS server, and I've verified that XP clients

I'm helping out a small office upgrade their NT 4 PDC to Samba. It's a small office of 6 people, so tdbsam is being used. They keep having tape backup issues and other problems, so one of the reasons for the Samba migration is to allow me to SSH into their box and remotely administer it from home on evenings/weekends. Currently I'm testing the move using two dummy machines, and

Hey all, might be a tad bit off topic to samba, but not entirely unlrelated. Anyhow, as I understand it, the task of a BDC is to process most if not all of the domain logons before a PDC does so is it not? It has been my understanding that the BDC generally accepts and processes domain logons before the PDC does on a network to keep the load down on the PDC until such time as the BDC cannot

Hi, Our domain is setup with one Primary Domain Controller and two Backup Domain Controllers, and a member server. All domain controllers (PDC and BDCs) are running Gentoo Linux with Samba and LDAP. The member server (fileserver) is a SUNS machine running Solaris. We do everything (add, edit, modify groups and accounts) on the PDC and it will then sync all the changes to the BDC by way of

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:11:23 +0000 Charish Patel via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been tasked with a migration of our servers and, as the subject > implies, part of it involves a PDC and BDC that were set up before my > time. However, I'm trying to accomplish a little bit more to give > myself, the sysadmin, a little bit more

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:33:29 -0500 Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob at donelsontrophy.net> wrote: > On 2016-09-28 11:22, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:11:23 +0000 > > Charish Patel via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I've been tasked with a migration of our servers

I currently have Samba 2.2.7 running as a PDC. I was wondering if I can implement Samba 3.0 on another server and have it act as a BDC to the original (samba 2.2.7) PDC. I this possible? Has anyone else done this? According to 'The Official Samba-3 Howto and Ref guide' "Samba-3 is capable of acting as a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) to another Samba Primary Domain Controller

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

I have a server acting as a PDC, and another server acting as a BDC. When I run 'net getlocalsid' on each, they return different numbers. If I run 'net getlocalsid domain_name' on the BDC, it returns the PDC's sid. Is it import for each machine to have the same SID? Thanks, Chris

Hi all, I'm rather new to samba and trying to deploy a PDC/BDC Setup for our company. Got some books and the manpages here to help me :) The config-files are attached at the end of this mail. Used Samba is 3.2.7-11.6 on a SLES11 system. The PDC is running as ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC says testparm, the BDC as ROLE_DOMAIN_BDC. Both DCs use a LDAP (OpenLDAP 2.4.12-7) for user authentication. The LDAP

If you mean regular Microsoft AD, the reason is simple: cost. Management sadly does not want to shell out the money for it. If you mean upgrading the Samba PDC to AD, that is what I want to do but on the new servers as opposed to the current set up. Charish -----Original Message----- From: Rowland Penny [mailto:rpenny at samba.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 12:23 PM To: samba at

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, i've send this mail to the samba-technical list last week, but there was no reaction, so i try it here. sorry, if samba-technical was not the right place for these things.. - --- october the 25th. i updated our samba servers to 3.0.0 and i found some bugs during the whole week, which i couldn't fix alone, cause i'm no good

Hi all! I want to implement a samba architecture with one PDC one BDC and 1 file server acting as a domain member server in a lan with approximately 60 clients. Even if they are not so many I need a solution that can give scalability to 100 clients in near future and reliability in case of hardware fail. Therefore I'm going to configure this system in order to obtain redundancy in user

Software: OS: Redhat 9 Samba Ver: Samba 3.0.0 (Plus excel writelock patch, waiting for 3.0.2!) OpenLDAP Ver: 2.0.27-8 Just a quick question about PDC / BDC interaction, my plan is to distribute Samba (with slave ldap backend) BDCs to remote facilities, as well as have one on each network segment in the hopes of avoiding unnecessary nmb broadcast traffic. My question is this: Will the PDC /

Hello, I have a little problem with samaba... well... with windows nt, samba works fine. I'll try to explain it: My net has 2 servers with NT4, a pdc and a bdc. Well, my intentions is to eliminate de NT4 PDC and put a Samba PDC. So I made the next steps: 1-. In BDC, Administrative Tools - Server Administrators (i think) and there i select the BDC and click in the menu to "Eliminate

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

Hi all! I'm a bit unsure if my idea is the best approach to this. So here's what I'm supposed to do: There is currently a samba pdc running with samba-2 which is about to be replaced because of some strange behaviour. The idea is to build a bdc first which should take over the job of the pdc as long as it takes to set up a new pdc with samba-3. After that is done the pdc is brought

Hi, Maybe this was asked many time (although can't find it on google). Let's assume 2 scenarios: 1) I've got local network where PDC and BDC are set up. PDC is working fine so the BDC is. When it's possible for any XP client to use BDC instead of PDC? I read in samba docs that if PDC is slow client can use BDC - but what does it mean slow for the client? How the client knows

Normal PDC/BDC isn't possible now. It will be in Samba 3.0 (look in documentation). But you can create substitute solution. For example two idendicaly servers with autocopy of password database, but it isn't PDC/BDC relations. It is two identicaly domains. I have two servers with samba, with two indenticaly password databases and smb.conf. When I have problem with one, I can fastly change

Hi there, I have a Samba PDC and BDC migrated from NT4 using ldapsam with an interdomain trust to a 2k3 domain. The trust is established both ways and was made from the pdc. Using samba 3.0.14a-sernet on Suse 9.1 The trust is working. I can pull users from the trusted domain and apply them to acls on my samba DMS. Winbind adds the idmap entry correctly. What is not working, is authentication from