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

[Lars Kneschke]

Matthew Geddes wrote:
> 
> 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?
Yes, i will update this topic.

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