Vampire between Samba PDC and Samba BDC

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:03, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:15:42PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> > > No samba does not have the server side functions needed to perform the
> > > operation, that's also part of the reason samba cannot still be a
> > > PDC/BDC.
> > 
> > Well... Samba can be a PDC, and it can be a BDC to a Samba PDC.  I think 
> > it's just that you can't use Windows and Samba together in PDC/BDC pairs.
> > 
> > ...or have I missed something?
> 
> You've missed that we do PDC/BDC through external synchronization, not
> through Windows protocols that vampire uses to suck out accounts :)

No, I hadn't missed that.  I knew that Samba used a different sync 
mechanism.

> What I meant is that samba can't be PDC or BDC in a mixed DC
> environment.

Right.  That's what I was asking.  :)

Chris -)-----

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