Prealpha PDC and 2.0.x File Server...

[Michael Glauche]

Ulf Bartelt wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Seems, I successfully set up a samba PDC...
> 
> My environment:
> 
> Samba-prealpha running on SuSE6.2 as PDC...
> 
> Samba-2.0.x running on Debian-2.0 having an external raid as file
> server, DNS server, NIS server...
> 
> My wishes:
> 
> I want as less stuff as possible on the PDCs harddisk and I want to keep
> PDC and file server on different systems.
> 
> If possible without conflict I'd love to put NIS and DNS on the PDC
> too...
> 
> User's profiles shall be in a subdir of the unix home of the user...
> 
> Status quo:
> 
> The homedirs of the users are on the file server, on the PDC I automount
> the whole /home from the file server for being able to create users on
> the PDC having their newly created homedir on the file server.
> 
> The user profiles (for NT clients) are in /home/USERNAME/.smbprofile and
> to ease administration I have an auto mounted directory /profiles on the
> PDC mapping /profile/USERNAME to fileserver:/home/USERNAME/.smbprofile.
> Maybe this will not be as useful as I think right now...
> 
> The profiles share on the PDC is declared to be
> \\fileserver\%U\.smbprofile.
> 
> "logon path" and "logon home" are pointing to
> \\fileserver\%U\.smbprofile and \\fileserver\%U.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> Are there any reasons NOT to put DNS and NIS on the PDC machine?

Don't think so ..

> Can I declare homes on the PDC as \\fileserver\homes? Or is the
> declaration of "logon home" enough?

Yes .. works perfect :
	logon home=\\fileserver\%U
	logon path=\\fileserver\profiles\%U

> Especially: What about putting the netlogon share on the fileserver too?

Don't know about this one, but you could mount it via NFS from the
fileserver, it is not very busy .. :)
 
> What is the right machine to declare "logon path" and friends? For now I
> put this in smb.conf of both machines, \\-style on the PDC and unix path
> style on the fileserver...

The PDC

> How does NT time syncronisation (with samba) work? Once on logon or
> periodically? "net time \\SERVER /set /yes" makes me assume it is done
> once...

its made on every logon (if the user has the right to modify the clock
!!)

regards,
   Michael

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