Samba as PDC

[Clifford Meece]

ifconfig interface_name  alias  alias_address netmask your_netmask broadcast
your_broadcast

or

man ifconfig


Keith Lynn wrote:

> I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I've never tried to alias IP
> addresses before. Is this something that can be done on the Solaris server
> I'm running? What I am planning to do is run each of my labs on a private
> subnet. Can I set up the server to listen to the IP address of the client
> or run completely seperate instances of smbd and nmbd?
>             Keith Lynn
>
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> > > I have looked at that page, and I want to make sure I understand what I
> > > need. I downloaded the latest version of Samba through CVS so that it
> > > would act as a primary domain controller. Do I need to download something
> > > different to make it serve multiple domains? Thanks.
> >
> > I don't think the current samba pdc code can server multiple domains.
> >
> > the most common way to server multiple domains is to run N multiple samba
> > servers on 1 physical machine with N aliased ip addresses.
> >
> >
> > -sv
> >
> >
> >

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