[Samba] Re: Workstation Trust Accounts

[Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH]

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Steve Langasek wrote:
>> Let me guess. If I do it this way samba acts as a pdc but the
>> clients do not try to update their accounts? Are there any
>> drawbacks using this technique?
> That makes them act as BDCs instead of all trying to be a PDC.
> Trying to deploy multiple PDCs in an NT4 domain and syncing
> between them will introduce nasty race conditions that should
> be avoided.
But we don't have multiple PDCs in _one_ domain. We have five PDCs in
_five_ domains plus one master server which acts as "administrative"
Server where all Useraccounts are entered but which has no samba
running. Does it still work then, if I let the now PDCs be BDCs?


Cheers
Nicki

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