NT PDC licensing

[Matt Pavlovich]

I will be testing this in a lab in the next few weeks and will gladly
assist in authoring a "Samba LDAP Domain HOWTO". 

What does the timeframe for 2.2.3 look like?  Having the HOWTO ready by
then would be handy.

Additionally, I am migrating a production NT 4.0 domain to the Samba
managed domain and am willing to work with anyone on this as well. 
"NT->Samba Domain Migration HOWTO" to come later..

Matt Pavlovich

Jeremy Allison wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:22:53PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
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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, can you write a howto for this ? I'm also intending to
> integrate and test all the LDAP patches for Samba 2.2.3 to make
> sure it works well with an LDAP SAM backend.
> 
> Can you let me know which (if any) patches you used to set this
> up ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         Jeremy.