[Samba] LDAP/Samba Groups question

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:

> I'm trying to create a single structure that will serve the entire
> organization, using LDAP replication to keep the users and groups
> straight, which has it's own challenges, but the big mental block here
> is the domains and workgroups. I need to have a PDC in each office, but
> I can't have multiple PDCs in one domain and Samba doesn't run as a BDC.
> And some of the PDCs need to serve multiple workgroups, and all of the
> examples I've seen have a single workgroup defined in the [global]
> section of their smb.conf files.

If you settle on a homogenous Samba solution, you can have Samba a PDC and
BDC's.  There's a howto included with the distribution that covers this.






cheers, jerry
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