[Samba] BDC problem!? user can't get profile/map drive

[Gémes Géza]

I would suggest to rsync the profile and home shares periodically, 
between DCs, of course it would mean a lot of disk space waste :-(

Cheers

Geza

>Dear Paul:
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>Would you show me how can I implement the BDC so that
>the user can mount to the BDC home and get the profile
>on BDC instead when the PDC is down?? 
>
>Thanks a lot!
>Carmen
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>--- Paul Gienger <pgienger at ae-solutions.com> wrote:
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>>>Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether the
>>>client login through the BDC. I found that my
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>>client
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>>>(on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC,
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>>but
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>>Makes sense
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>>>it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user
>>>profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to
>>>client PC machine. 
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>>Also makes sense.
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>>>the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes
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>>and
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>>>//PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC, it
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>>is
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>>>failed to find the //PDC/homes and //PDC/profiles?
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>>If your pdc has gone down you will most certainly
>>have a problem 
>>mounting drives/accessing files on that machine,
>>just as when any other 
>>server goes down you can't access services hosted on
>>it.  If this is 
>>your goal, you need to find some way to make the
>>pdc/home data highly 
>>available, such as storing them on a seperate server
>>that the users are 
>>then pointed to for the data.  There are many ways
>>to go about doing 
>>this, you just need to find the way that works best
>>for your situation.
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>>-- 
>>Paul Gienger                    Office: 701-281-1884
>>Applied Engineering Inc.
>>Systems Architect               Fax:    701-281-1322
>>URL: www.ae-solutions.com       mailto:
>>pgienger at ae-solutions.com
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