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

[Bill Moran]

Gerald Carter wrote:

>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 detain      
>
I've seen that HOWTO and am planning to using that approach.
Do you happen to know what policy NT/W2K/XP takes when deciding what server
to get it's login information from?  I seem to remember reading 
somewhere that it
attempts to use the PCD first and falls back on the BDC if the PDC 
doesn't respond
withing a certain time limit, but I could be remembing wrong.
Since this is going to be spread across a WAN with limited bandwidth, 
we'd like to
force the workstations to use the BDCs (if that's not already the policy).

Thanks for the reply,
Bill