Samba as PDC

[Keith Lynn]

I have my Samba server on a machine that has a real IP address and want it
to act as a PDC for machines on a different subset. What option do I need
to add to smb.conf to make this happen? Thanks.
      Keith Lynn

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Seth Vidal 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?
> 
> solaris multiple ip aliases:
> 
> from the solaris faq
> 
> 4.10) How can I have multiple addresses per interface? 
> 
> Solaris 2.x provides a feature in ifconfig that allows having more than
> one IP address per interfaces. Undocumented but existing prior to 2.5,
> documented in 2.5 and
> later. 
> 
> Syntax: 
> 
>         ifconfig IF:N ip-address up
> 
> where "IF" is an interface (e.g., le0) and N is a number between 1 and
> <MAX>. Removing the pseudo interface and associated address is done with
> "ifconfig IF:N 0.0.0.0
> down". 
> 
> As with physical interfaces, all you need to do is make the appropriate
> /etc/hostname.IF:X file. 
> 
> The maximum number of virtual interfaces, <MAX> above, is 255 in Solaris
> releases prior to 2.6. Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 2.5.1 with the Solaris
> Internet Server Supplement
> (SISS) allow you to set this value with ndd, upto a hard maximum of 8192. 
> 
> /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_addrs_per_if 4000
> 
> There's no limit inspired by the code; so if you bring out adb you can
> increase the maximum even further. 
> 
> 
> 
> then with samba setup multiple instances of smbd and nmbd called with -s
> [conf file location]
> each only binding to one interface with the 
> interfaces=
> and
> bind interfaces only=yes
> parameters
> 
> set a different domain for each and you should be on your way.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
> 
>