[Samba] Samba PDC windoze BDC

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Nov 21 20:32:01 GMT 2002


On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 05:38, Bill Dossett wrote:
> :-( grump grump grump...  is there any
> way to get NT to authenticate against
> samba?  Unfortunately I've got SQL server
> running and we can't migrate to MYSQL
> yet for a while... I'm just trying to
> avoid keeping two servers in sync with
> accounts and I've got everything else
> including samba authenticating via ldap
> which is excellent, but unless I can get
> NT to authenticate via samba or ldap which
> seem to be looking unlikely, I guess I'll
> have to  - and start testing the alpha 3 stuff
> and try and help out with it I guess.
> Thanks for the info.

NT can authenticate against Samba as a member server.  We cannot support
NT BDCs at present.  
 
> Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:41, Bill Dossett wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>During my migration to samba, I had kind of assumed
> >>that I could run Samba as a PDC and my windoze server
> >>as a BDC to ease the migration path a little and still
> >>keep the same domain.  I was going to  use samba 2.2.5
> >>on the PDC and NT4 sp6 on the BDC.  After reading quite
> >>a bit, it looks as though this doesn't work?
> >>
> >>Is there a way to make it work?
> > 
> > not with samba 2 
> > 
> >>Does Samba 3 handle this?
> > 
> > maybe soon
> > 
> >>Is Samba 3 stable for production?
> > 
> > depends on your environment - probably no it is alpha software
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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