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

[Matthew Geddes]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> Hi all,

Hello

> 
> 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.

 
> 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.

Yeah, It's possible, but I'm not sure how successful others have been.
Lars, do you think that this needs to be changed?

> 
> 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

Try grabbing the latest tarball from
ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/. I have had a fair amount of
success with TNG by itself.

Hope it helps,
Matt

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Matthew Geddes
Network Manager
Xavier College
Gawler, SA