[Samba] BDC problem!? user can't get profile/map drive

[Carmen Wai]

My problem is that when my PDC is down, my BDC can
pick up the user authorization but is not able to help
client to mount to the home directory. 

I am using openldap to store user account, I found the
samba home drive entry in the openldap as //PDC/homes.
I don't know whether this prevent my BDC to help
client to mount to the //BDC/homes instead...

Do anyone know how to solve this??

Thanks a lot!
Carmen


--- Gémes Géza <geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu> wrote:
> I would suggest to rsync the profile and home shares
> periodically, 
> between DCs, of course it would mean a lot of disk
> space waste :-(
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Geza
> 
> >Dear Paul:
> >
> >Would you show me how can I implement the BDC so
> that
> >the user can mount to the BDC home and get the
> profile
> >on BDC instead when the PDC is down?? 
> >
> >Thanks a lot!
> >Carmen
> >
> >--- Paul Gienger <pgienger at ae-solutions.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>>Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether
> the
> >>>client login through the BDC. I found that my
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>client
> >>    
> >>
> >>>(on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC,
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>but
> >>    
> >>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Makes sense
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user
> >>>profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to
> >>>client PC machine. 
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Also makes sense.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>and
> >>    
> >>
> >>>//PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC,
> it
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>is
> >>    
> >>
> >>>failed to find the //PDC/homes and
> //PDC/profiles?
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>If your pdc has gone down you will most certainly
> >>have a problem 
> >>mounting drives/accessing files on that machine,
> >>just as when any other 
> >>server goes down you can't access services hosted
> on
> >>it.  If this is 
> >>your goal, you need to find some way to make the
> >>pdc/home data highly 
> >>available, such as storing them on a seperate
> server
> >>that the users are 
> >>then pointed to for the data.  There are many ways
> >>to go about doing 
> >>this, you just need to find the way that works
> best
> >>for your situation.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Paul Gienger                    Office:
> 701-281-1884
> >>Applied Engineering Inc.
> >>Systems Architect               Fax:   
> 701-281-1322
> >>URL: www.ae-solutions.com       mailto:
> >>pgienger at ae-solutions.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
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