Multiple PDC's

Greg Dickie greg at discreet.com
Wed Aug 25 11:40:43 GMT 1999


If you use WINS you do not need a PDC on each subnet.

Greg 

On 25-Aug-99 Kevin Van Der Hart wrote:
> We are needing to be able to do NT Workstation domain logons into an
> entirely SUN server environment. I have been able to set up a Samba PDC
> and get the domain logons to work in a testing area. My problem is that
> we have 15 different subnets which all need to be able to do the domain
> logons but we do all of our user administration from one centralized
> server and all users are valid on any of the subnets. If I setup a Samba
> PDC on each subnet to do the domain authentication, how can I keep the
> user information synchronized across all of the PDC's? Because of the
> machine accounts in the smbpasswd file, synchronizing this file is out
> of the question. Or is there a better way to accomplish the domain
> logons?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Van Der Hart
> LAN Administrator
> Vermeer Mfg Co
> 
> kvanderhart at vermeermfg.com

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