Browsing and stuff

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [mailto:lkcl at samba.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 9:15 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: RE: Browsing and stuff
> 
> 
> the way it works is that the PDC sends out "delta" 
> notifications on UDP
> 138 braoadcasts, and the BDCs notice them (hopefully), and do 
> a "pull"of
> hte SAM using a NetrSamLogon MSRPC call.

Guess I missed a couple of steps there...  :)  Still ends up with the same
result, though.

> 
> we have a client-side _and_ server-side netr_sam_logon 
> implementaion in
> samba tng netlogond and rpcclient, we don't have the UDP 138
> notifications.

Cool, so TNG is capable of both giving the diffs to BDCs, and taking the
diffs from PDCs, it just can't do it automagically.  Assuming that I have
that right, how in the heck does a samba PDC get changes to go to an NT BDC?
	Greg


> 
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matthew Geddes [mailto:mgeddes at xavier.sa.edu.au]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 5:58 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> > > Subject: Re: Browsing and stuff
> > >
> > > > >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.
> > 
> > I don't know exactly how samba does it, but NT propogates 
> (sp?) changes to
> > the SAM at regular intervals.  I think you can even change it in the
> > registry of the PDC, and it is most definately a "push" 
> operation for a
> > strictly NT network.  Somebody who knows more about TNG 
> will have to answer,
> > but my question is "Does Samba TNG accept and NT PDCs send 
> of the SAM DB?"
> > 	Greg
> > 
> 
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