Promoting Samba to PDC in NT domain?

[Gerald Carter]

kai at oyang.org wrote:
> 
> When I created the samba box, I ran server manager in NT to make 
> it a server, NOT PDC/BDC. The setup has been running for more 
> than 4 weeks without problems. Today, users in the NT 
> domain couldn't log in and I found my samba box has become the 
> PDC of the domain. My smb.conf is:
> 
> [global]
>         workgroup = PROD
>         netbios name = TITAN
>         server string = Samba
>         security = DOMAIN
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/usermap
>         debug level = 2
>         wins server = 192.168.1.90
>         hosts allow = 192.168. 127.
>         domain logons = yes
>         password server = *
> 
> Question is how can this happen? running the config 
> with testparm shows the extra defaults as:
>         os level = 20
>         preferred master = No
>         local master = Yes
>         domain master = No

It's going to be because you have domain logons = yes 
with security = domain.  Plus there was a recent bug found
(and fixed by Andrew) regarding the 'auto' value for
parameters.





Cheers, jerry
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