[Samba] PDC/BDC without WINS

[Pablo Gainza Cirauqui]

Thanks a lot Andrew! We hadn't thought of that.

Just one more question, would you be able to have users moving from
one regional office to another without changing their domain
configuration? Would they accept the local PDC as their own (if it had
the same domain and SID)?

On 7/7/05, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:56 -0600, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Our company is trying to implement central Windows Domain at HQ and
> > replicated across all its regional offices.  The implementation will
> > have a PDC/LDAP-master on HQ and BDC/LDAP-slave on each regional
> > office.
> >
> > In the hopes of saving bandwidth we are trying to avoid the use of
> > WINS between WAN links.
> >
> > Is there any way of not using WINS and still have the clients find the
> > PDC (for updating purposes as well as for redundancy)?
> 
> For updating purposes, you can declare each site to have it's own PDC,
> and let the LDAP layer handle the replication/data update issues.
> Provided the different 'PDC's can't see each other, they should not be
> bothered by this.
> 
> This doesn't help with redundancy, but doing that over a WAN is pretty
> bad anyway.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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