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

[Elrond]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:43:04PM +1000, Lars Kneschke wrote:
[...]
> > 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.
> 
> Cu

There are three ways to go:

1) Use TNG on its own.

   This works for most people and is a reasonable way to
   go. The fileserving code is quite up to date, but
   doesn't have all the latest bells and whistles.

2) Use TNG and smbd/nmbd from HEAD

   I guess, this one is referred to above.

   I don't know, wether this still works or not, some
   reports make me feel, that this isn't working any
   more.

   So I currently don't advise this way.

3) Use a complete TNG and a complete 2.0.x-install on the
   same machine (or even different machines).

   The 2.0.x-samba should be a domain-member of the domain. 
   The only share, you need on the PDC is netlogon (you may
   put the policies in there.) Both sambas should be on
   different IP adresse and must have different netbios
   names, I also highly suggest installing them in
   different trees.

   This is a more complex way than 1, but you get high
   quality fileserving and a PDC. And printing (if you need
   it) might be lots easier to configure (don't ask me on
   printing though).

In your case, you could possibly even leave the current
samba running (just making it a domain-member at the end).
and install the PDC on a different netbios-name (nobody
realy sees the name of the pdc, they only see the
domain-name... [some people here even don't know, where the
pdc is physicaly located, also they have stood next to
it ;-)])


    Elrond