[Samba] PDC BDC should I or shouldn't I?

[Quenten Griffith]

Thanks for the response, since what mostly would need to go to the BDC 
is in conf files it shouldn't be that hard to just pick up and move 
those conf files nightly through crontab to the BDC from the PDC or even 
hourly for that matter.  I could be wrong in this that more would need 
to move back and forth then conf files.  DNS has a conf file so that 
should be the only thing that needs move there, DHCP has a conf file, 
and so does samba.  Samba would also need the password and userlist and 
the profiles dir moved over as well.  THen for the share drives I would 
just mirror them.

Thierry ITTY wrote:

>I saw a paper a while ago on this list explaining how to simulate a samba
>BDC (unfortunately i don't remember a link ref or a title). the main idea
>was to have the samba BDC act as a DC, but with regular refreshes of the
>user database from the "true" PDC (using rsync or whatever), or using the
>"true" PDC as a remote password server, or a combination of both.
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>you'd try and search this paper, such a solution should put your boss' mind
>at ease :-)
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>A 10:29 18/07/02 -0400, vous avez écrit :
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>>Thanks for your response, that is the big thing I am worried about is 
>>having the PDC and the BDC talk to each other we have only needed to go 
>>to the BDC once in 7 years, but I don't think I can fly it by my boss 
>>telling them we will no longer have a BDC.  Can you also have the 
>>Windows client add themselves to the domain with out you having to 
>>change anything on the Samba box?  Did you find good documentation when 
>>you set it up?
>>James Bear wrote:
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>>>I am using Samba 2.2.3a as a PDC.  It does everything you ask if it would
>>>do.  I log in with W98, W2K, and WXP.  It all works very well.  I do not,
>>>though, have a BDC.
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>>>James Bear
>>>Montpelier Public School
>>>322 Bailey Avenue
>>>Montpelier, ND  58472
>>>
>>>james.s.bear at sendit.nodak.edu
>>>www.montpelier.k12.nd.us
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Quenten Griffith" <qgriffith at edm1.com>
>>>To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>>>Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 8:51 AM
>>>Subject: [Samba] PDC BDC should I or shouldn't I?
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>>>>Hello everyone  I hope this is the right place to post this question.  I
>>>>have all but eliminated all Microsoft servers in my current work
>>>>environment, expect two boxes, which are our PDC and BDC, they also are
>>>>the DNS, Dial in With Rocket Port Card, DHCP, Winslookup servers.  I
>>>>would like to remove these NT boxes and replace them with a nice shiny
>>>>new Linux box running Samba.  Reading some of the FAQ's on samba.org
>>>>about PDC and BDC has me a bit worried and wondering if I should wait
>>>>till version 3.0 of Samba is released.  Since I saw in one documentation
>>>>that PDC will be fully enabled in that version.  I am wondering if any
>>>>one has and success or horror stories with setting up a PDC with Samba.
>>>>My co workers will need to be able to do the following;
>>>>
>>>>Log in from WIN98, WIN2K, NT 4.0 (and maybe at some point XP) *I am
>>>>afraid I will never be able to switch workstations to Linux and I am
>>>>stuck with Windows Products*
>>>>
>>>>Change their password when it expires (with out having to log in to a
>>>>linux box)
>>>>
>>>>Map Drives and of course access them.
>>>>
>>>>Have Roaming Profiles
>>>>
>>>>Share Printers that are hooked up to Jet Directs
>>>>
>>>>Add new machines to the network with out me having to do anything on the
>>>>Linux box (such as with Win2k when you assign a new machine to the
>>>>network you give it the domain controller and your username and password
>>>>and it will add to it)
>>>>
>>>>I will take care of adding new users when they come along or write a
>>>>script that does everything automaticly.  I will also need the box to be
>>>>able to talk to a BDC and sync up with it.  Which will be another Samba
>>>>box.  I see this though in one of the FAQ's
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>>>>"These things are not expected to work in the foreseeable future:
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>>>>     Trust relationships
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>>>>     PDC and BDC integration"
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>>>>Which worries me a little.  If anyone can provide good feedback such as
>>>>should I wait till version 3.0 of Samba comes out to try this or is this
>>>>not doable yet or good documentation or books on this subject I would
>>>>appreciate it.  I plan on using 2.2.5 version of Samba to try this.
>>>>Thank you for your time, and if this is the wrong place to post this I
>>>>apologize.
>>>>
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>Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'être mieux ?
>	Thierry ITTY
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