NT PDC /and/ fileserving on the same Unix machine?

[Steve Langasek]

Hi all,

I have a machine, currently running Samba 2.0.7, which is a fileserver that
also has the experimental PDC support enabled (part of some tests I was doing
with it a while back).  We've recently decided that it would be very
advantageous to bring this machine up as a *real* PDC for a real NT domain, in
order to facilitate centralized administration of all users.  Right now, I can
rip out all of the previous domain stuff on this machine; but once I bring
this domain on-line, I don't want to have to reconfigure it again -- which
means switching to TNG.

Now the tricky part: in addition to being our central point for
authentication, this machine is also our central fileserver, and I can't get
away with moving those services to a different machine.  So I'm looking for a
solution that would let me run the TNG-like PDC code together with the robust
file sharing code from the HEAD branch.

I suppose this is probably a FAQ, and I would have checked the list archives
first if the archives weren't down. :)  The pages at
http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/ give a mixed message regarding the
combination of TNG and HEAD code; they suggest that it is possible, but
elsewhere on the site, I see a warning that this doesn't work too well right
now.  Then again in the FAQ, I see that as of 8 Aug, TNG is billed as
supporting file service in its own right.

What's the best path through the morass of CVS branches? :)  If all else
fails, I can fall back to running two copies of Samba (Samba 2.0.7 and TNG) on
the machine, listening on different addresses and offering different netbios
names; but I would really prefer a more elegant solution...

Please CC me on any replies.  Given the recent changes in the mailing lists,
I wasn't sure how well subscribing to samba-ntdom would work at this point.

TIA,
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer