Fwd: Re: NetLogon Service

[Brian Keats]

Sorry Matt, I do have domain logons = yes ...

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Matthew Geddes wrote:

> Brian Keats wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Kevin Colby wrote:
> > > Brian Keats wrote:
> > > >
> > > > (Did I mention I'm using secuity = domain ?)
> > >
> > > I do not understand what you are trying to do here.
> > > Is this a PDC, BDC, or a domain member?
> > >
> > >       - Kevin Colby
> > >         kevinc at grainsystems.com
> > 
> > It's a domain member.  I'm trying to get it to act as a, for the lack of a
> > better term, kind of proxy DOMAIN controller.  It's almost doing that now
> > except for the part of passing along the logon script to the client machine.
> > In other words, the linux machine is validating users by contacting the PDC (
> > or one of the BDC's).
> 
> I don't see how it can be physically possible. I was under the
> impression that if you have security=domain and no domain logons=yes
> line in your smb.conf file, you are rnuning a member server. It will not
> process any logons. Once you add the security=user and domain
> logons=yes, you are no longer a member, but a domain controller. If you
> join a domain, you are a Backup Domain Controller. Someone else will
> know for sure.
> 
> At least you don't need to reinstall your unix to go from PDC -> BDC ->
> Member server. ;-).
> 
> Matt
> 
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