[Samba] How to set up a multi-subnet Samba network

[Gerald Carter]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Alex Dawson wrote:

> Yes, samba 2.2.3a doesn't support either replicating to Windows BDCs 
> or Samba BDCs. The recommended way of doing it is to have multiple 
> machines running samba, using the same synced userlist, and work out 
> some way to load share. There is a page in .es (sorry for being 
> vauge) which has an explaination of how to do this.

The easiest way to do load balancing to to set domain master = yes on the 
Samba PDC and "domain master = no" on the Samba BDC's.  See the
Samba-BDC-HOWTO for more details.







cheers, jerry
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