[Samba] advantages of PDC

[Martyn Ranyard]

Here goes...

   One major advantage of using samba as a PDC when you only have one 
server is that there are no local accounts to set up on the workstations, 
and without knowing a username and password you cannot log on to the 
workstation.  This is why we use it in-house here.  Security is much 
improved from other modes of operation.

   The original concept behind windows domains is that all members of the 
domain ask the PDC to validate users.  e.g. when a printer is shared from a 
client, it can be configured to only allow people who are logged into the 
server to print to it.  or if you have two servers sharing different 
resources, you only need to have change passwords on one, rather than each 
individually.

Hope this clears things up a bit for you.

At 12:45 PM 1/30/02 +0000, Girish R S wrote:
>I wanted to know what is the advantage of PDC. The purpose of samba in our
>proj is just to share the unix directory and allow win2K users to add files
>to unix.
>Is it an advantage to make PDC????
>Can i make the unix server appear in selected win2K systems.(i presume
>adding workgroup will work.) if any other suggestions i would appreciate.
>Another doubt was, when i installed samba i could see the unix server as its
>hostname, can we change the way its listed in win2k.
>Please help me.
>Rgds
>Girish
>

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Martyn Ranyard