Using Samba -- domain logins

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

BDC: domain logons = yes, domain master = no, encrypt passwords = yes.
PDC: domain l = y, dm = y, ep = y.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> >         Samba folks: the requirement "must be in user-level 
> >         security ( security = user) and must be the PDC" used to be 
> >         trivially true, but from poking at the 2.0.6 code with cscope,
> >         it looks as if it should work if you were a member server. 
> >         As we're not advertizing PDC in 2.0.x, this requirement
> >         is out of place (It was introduced to the book
> >         around version 1.9.18 of Samba), and arguably shouldn't be 
> >         discussed at all.
> 
> I've had some success using "domain logons = yes" on a machine that was not
> the PDC for a domain, so the "domain logons" and "domain master" options do
> appear to be completely orthogonal.
> 
> -Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
>