FRS / DFS replication

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 17:48 +0300, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> With all your job on DRS it's likely that sooner or latter we will want 
> to have DFS working and in order to allow files to be the same on all 
> the domain controller.
> That leads to two protocol that MS product use to do so:
> * FRS file replication protocol (from w2k)
> * DFS replication
> 
> 
> I think it will be a great plus for samba to support either DFS and/or 
> FRS, although in the simple scheme of just s4 server it can be replaced 
> by some clever inotify script + rsync (and also maybe in Windows as 
> well)  it will be needed for mixed windows/samba domain to support at 
> least one of the protocol.
> 
> As it seems that tridge wants to keep some compatibility with w2k I am 
> wondering how far he wants to keep the compatibility as now DFS 
> replication replace FRS (it's available since w2k3r2).

Well, we should start with the most recent first, I think.  In terms of
Windows 2000, the most important thing to support is the functional
level, not the now-ancient product itself. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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