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

[Gémes Géza]

Change PDC to %L and you are done, the clients will request the share 
from the DC they are connected to.

>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. 
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>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...
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>Do anyone know how to solve this??
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>Thanks a lot!
>Carmen
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>--- Gémes Géza <geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu> wrote:
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>>I would suggest to rsync the profile and home shares
>>periodically, 
>>between DCs, of course it would mean a lot of disk
>>space waste :-(
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>>Cheers
>>
>>Geza
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>>>Dear Paul:
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>>>Would you show me how can I implement the BDC so
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>>that
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>>>the user can mount to the BDC home and get the
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>>profile
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>>>on BDC instead when the PDC is down?? 
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>>>Thanks a lot!
>>>Carmen
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>>>--- Paul Gienger <pgienger at ae-solutions.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether
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>>the
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>>>>>client login through the BDC. I found that my
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>>>>client
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>>>>>(on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC,
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>>>>but
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>>>>Makes sense
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>>>>>it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user
>>>>>profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to
>>>>>client PC machine. 
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>>>>Also makes sense.
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>>>>>the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes
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>>>>and
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>>>>>//PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC,
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>>it
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>>>>is
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>>>>>failed to find the //PDC/homes and
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>>//PDC/profiles?
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>>>>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
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>>on
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>>>>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
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>>server
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>>>>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
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>>best
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>>>>for your situation.
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>>>>-- 
>>>>Paul Gienger                    Office:
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>>701-281-1884
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>>>>Applied Engineering Inc.
>>>>Systems Architect               Fax:   
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>>701-281-1322
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>>>>URL: www.ae-solutions.com       mailto:
>>>>pgienger at ae-solutions.com
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