Setting up PDC and BDC using Samba

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Brodbelt <m.brodbelt at acu.ac.uk> writes:

    Mike> Not true - both BDC's and PDC's (in the NT world) have local
    Mike> copies of the SAM, and can authenticate from them. The
    Mike> difference is that the PDC is considered the authoritative
    Mike> source of the data, and the BDC's replicate with it. It's

In addition, only the PDC can write to the SAM.  This means that if
your PDC goes down, users cannot change their passwords, etc.

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