[Samba] roaming profiles from BDC only, not from PDC

[rruegner]

hi,
you can store your profiles on whatever samba server you want as long it 
is trusted to
the smb domain, and the profile is known to the users i.e. ldap entries, 
it musnt be a bdc
but resolvable by smb/wins and adjusted to use  the pdcs ladp data base 
for auth.
But normally you will  use  this machine  as bdc too, cause it takes you 
no costs.

In big networks you might prefer to store profiles on a (nas) smb server 
which is best connected to
all  parts of the network , which has best network quality for all 
connected clients local or vpn.
there are mount via nfs etc, to pdcs and bdcs from a nas server ( can be 
a samba too )thinkable too.

In many bigger network the pdcs do no other job as auth for users,
homes and profiles  are stored elseware.
Regards

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to use roaming profiles from BDC only, and not from PDC?
>
> We have offices connected using VPN/WAN, in each office there is one 
> BDC and LDAP slave (on one machine), and in one location there is a 
> PDC and LDAP master.
>
> If a local BDC crashes, users can authenticate agains PDC over VPN/WAN 
> - but in that case they should use their local profile.
>
> Is it possible to disable roaming profiles on a PDC, but have them on 
> BDCs?
>
> I tried removing [profiles] and "logon path" entries from PDCs 
> smb.conf, but still when the user logs in, he/she is welcomed by 
> "\\pdc\profiles\user... doesn't exist, visit your Administrator etc." 
> window, which can very confusing for many of them.
>
>
> Tomek