domain controller promotion

[Simo Sorce]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> Akop Pogosian wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, David C. Canedo wrote:
> >
> > > I have "preferred master = no" in my smb.conf file YET my samba server was still promoted to PDC
> > > when our PDC went down this weekend. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
> > >
> > > Please reply to dcanedo at concero.com as I am not on this mailing list.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > --
> > > Dave Canedo
> > > Concero / IT Department
> > >
> >
> > This option is not used to designate a machine as PDC.
> > >From smb.conf man page:
> >
> >      preferred master (G)
> >
> >           This boolean parameter controls if nmbd is a  preferred
> >           master browser for its workgroup.
> >
> >           If this is set to true, on startup, nmbd will force  an
> >           election,  and  it will have a slight advantage in win-
> >           ning the election.  It is recommended that this parame-
> >           ter  is used in conjunction with "domain master = yes",
> >           so that nmbd can guarantee becoming a domain master.
> >                   ...
> >
> > If you don't want your Samba box to be a PDC, make sure you do not
> > set "domain logons" in smb.conf or use "domain logons = no"
> > in smb.conf file.
> >
> > Akop
> 
> "domain logons = yes" is needed to retrieve the passwords from the PDC.
> to avoid beeing PDC you should set "domain master = no".
> 
> Simo.
> 

whoops. There's an error change "domain logons = yes" with "logon server
= PDCNAME"

the correct settings are as follow:

preferred master = no
domain master = no
domain logons = no
logon server = PDCNAME


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