[Samba] Samba PDC in many branch offices + one LDAP database - how to change passwords?

[Andreas]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:51:07PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just configured Samba 3 PDC + LDAP.
> 
> The aim is to have a Samba 3 PDC + LDAP in each branch office; and there 
> should be one user/password database.
> 
> There are about 20 branch offices in different locations and users 
> travel a lot between them with laptops.
> 
> Each branch office has a below configuration:
> 
> - Samba 3 PDC
> - slave OpenLDAP server

What about having each branch office with a samba 3 BDC instead of PDC?
It seems you are already replicating the whole ldap tree to every office.
Having a PDC there will cause unnecessary delays since it will always try
to write to the local ldap server and get a referral to the master ldap
server anyway.