NT PDC licensing

[Volker Lendecke]

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> Will NT clients automatically direct authentication to the Samba "BDC"
> by changing 'domain master = no', 'domain logons = yes'?  

After asking the WINS for DOMAIN#1c the Workstation sends out a
Broadcast NetBIOS Datagram along with a directed packet to the first
IP in the DOMAIN#1c answer. The broadcast responder is then
preferred. This way you always get the local DC to answer the logon
request. 'domain master = no' is necessary to direct the password
change requests to the PDC and to avoid the WINS name clash.

> What about OS level? 

Not relevant, this only applies to Browsing.

> Have you tested this?

Yes :-) Only in a test scenario until now, but there it works
perfectly fine.

Volker
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