[Samba] Samba running as PDC and BDC

kugs4ever at wi.rr.com kugs4ever at wi.rr.com
Fri Aug 2 19:55:02 GMT 2002


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>>That is what I was told also, so I'm surprised to be told otherwise.. Does
>>anyone know for sure?
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>Samba 2.x can act as a BDC as long as the PDC is also Samba - the method is
>just making copies of the smbpasswd and other conf files via a UNIX method
>like scp, rsync, etc. - there's no support for a REAL NT-compatible PDC/BDC
>configuration yet.
>

Good news for those that want to totally replace NT servers, but this is 
probably a limited audience as the migration has to be gradual in most 
cases.

Dan





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