CIFS UNIX Extensions.

[Andrew Bartlett]

Jay Ts wrote:
> One more thing I've been meaning to ask about: right now, Samba cannot
> act as a Windows NT BDC, but what about adding some (open) protocol
> extensions to Samba to allow Samba servers to act as a BDCs for a Samba PDC?
> Would that be a good idea?  Or has it already been thought of and
> dismissed?

Its been done using LDAP.  LDAP does all the syncing, and both machines
use their 'local' copy.  Bit more too it than that, but you get my
drift.

Andrew Bartlett

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