[Samba] advantages of PDC

[Girish R S]

Thanks Martyn, it certainly does clear my doubts. If i am right, what i
understand is that if with help of PDC the users are validated against entry
in the samba server.
Thanks once again.
rgds
Girish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martyn Ranyard [mailto:ranyardm at lineone.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: ramadurgam.girish at wipro.com; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] advantages of PDC
>
>
> Here goes...
>
>    One major advantage of using samba as a PDC when you only have one
> server is that there are no local accounts to set up on the workstations,
> and without knowing a username and password you cannot log on to the
> workstation.  This is why we use it in-house here.  Security is much
> improved from other modes of operation.
>
>    The original concept behind windows domains is that all members of the
> domain ask the PDC to validate users.  e.g. when a printer is
> shared from a
> client, it can be configured to only allow people who are logged into the
> server to print to it.  or if you have two servers sharing different
> resources, you only need to have change passwords on one, rather
> than each
> individually.
>
> Hope this clears things up a bit for you.
>
> At 12:45 PM 1/30/02 +0000, Girish R S wrote:
> >I wanted to know what is the advantage of PDC. The purpose of
> samba in our
> >proj is just to share the unix directory and allow win2K users
> to add files
> >to unix.
> >Is it an advantage to make PDC????
> >Can i make the unix server appear in selected win2K systems.(i presume
> >adding workgroup will work.) if any other suggestions i would appreciate.
> >Another doubt was, when i installed samba i could see the unix
> server as its
> >hostname, can we change the way its listed in win2k.
> >Please help me.
> >Rgds
> >Girish
> >
>
> ==============
> Martyn Ranyard
>

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