PDC features II [was Re: PDC acceptance criteria]

[anders at cwd.no]

But trust-relations will require a rewritten user-layer, as the following 
is not neccesarry true in an NT environment:
Anders\NTDOMAIN1 = Anders\NTDOMAIN2, which is the current implementation 
in Samba TNG.

--Anders





David Collier-Brown <David.Collier-Brown at canada.sun.com>
Sent by: samba-technical-admin at us4.samba.org
10/04/2000 08:20 AM

 
        To:     Stephan Lauffer <lauffer at ph-freiburg.de>
        cc:     Gerald Carter <gcarter at valinux.com>, Kevin Colby 
<kevinc at grainsystems.com>, samba-technical at samba.org
        Subject:        Re: PDC features II [was Re: PDC acceptance criteria]

Stephan Lauffer wrote:
> 
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> >       I am a little more prone to add PDC<->BDC
> >       replication with and NT DC in with this as well.
> >
> >       Here is my reasoning:  People who wish to
> >       replace NT DC's will do it one by one.  This
> >       also handles the migration from an NT PDC to a
> >       Samba PDC (which is a necessary feature).
> In many cases trust are very necessary, too.
> Sometimes there are really big NT Domains with a lot of
> workstation as member in the NT domain. Without trust,
> samba couldn´t take place in the network environment.

                 There is a second sense of migration: changing
                 over to a Samba from an NT domain.  In this model,
                 one extracts information from the NT or Win2k 
                 domain or domains, then moves a community of
                 users to a Samba server, dropping the NT PDC/BDC/
                 new-DC-thingie from service.

                 This only requires PDC functionality, but
                 it can often require trust relationships. These
                 allow other domains to stay NT-based, either
                 temporarily or because their politics requires it.

                 It's easier than trying to run in parallel,
                 but does have a "everything is down for migration" 
                 period in the plan.

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