Help setting up Samba BDC of Samba PDC

[Ignacio Coupeau]

Charles Owens wrote:
> 
> Matt,
> 
> What's the status of the Samba BDC code?  I see the smbpasswd  -b and
> -S
> options...
> 
> Can you provide a quick howto on setting this up?  I can make some
> guesses, but I'd prefer to have a clue.  :-)
> 
> How does this work in the LDAP context?  Does the BDC expect to be
> pointed at a different LDAP server than the PDC?  If so, this seems
> unneccessary to me... couldn't both DC's be pointed at the same LDAP
> server?  As long as the LDAP infrastructure is implemented with a
> decent
> degree of fault tolerence, this would seem to be preferable to having
> the BDC maintain its own private image of the SAM.  (of course... I
> could be totally of my rocker... ;-)

for me, the LDAP runs with a very decent degree of fault tolerance... we
have one LDAP (openldap) server with 3 PDC attached to the same
database... for 50 WS runs fine; with 120 WS in a week I can tell you...
with 420 WS (the final project) perhaps we need a replicated LDAP...

Regards,
Ignacio

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