NT PDC licensing

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:34:22PM -0500, Adam Killian wrote:

> This seems like a good option to me.  This project is to see how feasible it
> would be to replace a Novell Netware file/print environemnt with Linux/Samba.
> I am going to need OpenLdap to replace NDS anyhow. 
> 
> Just to be sure I understand...
> I setup a Samba servers in each site with domain logons=yes and OpenLdap as a
> slave
> I pick one server to be the OpenLdap master and all is well?

Yes.

> Can a real NT4 app server be a member of such a domain? We have some apps the
> MUST be run on NT4 servers.

Yes, certainly. But be aware that Samba 2.2 does *not* do any group mapping.
This means that you can not use domain groups on your NT Member server. Samba
3.0alpha contains group mapping code, but this does currently not compile with
an LDAP SAM.

Volker
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