Browsing and stuff

[Matthew Geddes]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At 12:26 PM 2/9/00 +1100, Matthew Geddes wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >If I have two Samba servers set up like so:
> >
> >    os level = 65
> >    domain master = yes
> >    local master = yes
> >    preferred master = yes
> >
> >and
> >
> >    os level = 60
> >    domain master = yes
> >    local master = yes
> >    preferred master = yes
> >
> >and the top machine goes down, will that force an election that will
> >then be won by the second machine? If not, is it a built in thing or a
> >"Matt's configured it wrong" thing?
>
> No, it will not necessarily force an election.  The things that will cause
> an election are:
>
>   1. A client trying to browse (send GetBackupList) and not getting a
>      response within the timeout.
>
>   2. A backup browser trying to get the browse list from the master
>      and not getting a response.
>
>   3. A server coming up and having prefered master = yes
>
>   4. Maybe something else.
>
> You have not necessarily configured it wrong, but you do not need the
> preferred master on the second server, as that just forces it to have an
> election when it comes up, which is useless if the other one is running, I
> think.

Sounds about right. I was just thinking it might be nice as a redundancy
thing. Not important.

>
>
> >Also, does Samba BDC pass all authrentication on to the PDC, or does it
> >cache or store a copy of the SAM?
>
> PDC keeps its own copy of the SAM.  Samba TNG's rpcclient program contains
> a samsync command, IIRC.
>

Does this mean you need to manually update the BDCs whenever you a) start
samba on the BDC or b) whenever changes are made.

>
> >Thanks heaps,
> >
> >Matt

Thanks again,
Matt