[Samba] Suggestions for moving a PDC function

[Arnold Krille]

Hi,

On 03/24/2012 08:09 PM, Simon Matthews wrote:
> I currently have a server which is both the PDC for my domain and the file
> server for the network.
> I need to split these functions and move the PDC function to another box,
> while leaving the original server as the file server on which home
> directories and roaming profiles are stored. User credentials are stored in
> a tdbsam database and I am running Samba 3.5.

I can't comment on the actually samba-internal files as I haven't yet 
moved a samba server from one machine to the other.
But as far as my understanding of windows-domains (and the excellent 
samba3.5 docs) goes, the pdc has its special role for two things: 
providing the login-information and providing at least the logon-share, 
maybe even the profiles-share.
So I doubt that you can completely separate your servers. Of course you 
can set up a second samba-server (as bdc or normal domain-member) to 
provide additional shares. Wouldn't it be easier on your case to just 
move some of the shares to the second machine?

Have fun,

Arnold
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