[Samba] Re: Proper use of SID's and LDAPon dc's?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Nov 3 14:47:55 GMT 2005


William Jojo wrote:

>>Matt Pruett wrote:

>>>I have two samba dc's, same subnet, the goal is to have them both be
>>>able to answer domain login requests and therefore if one goes down we
>>>still have the ability to login to the domain. Can this be done with
>>>samba?
>>
>>AFAIK, no.  Not a simple, out-of-the-box solution anyway.

> http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html
> http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-bdc.html

Wow, learn something new every day.  I thought the "Samba can't be a 
BDC" was universal, not applicable only if using a NT4 PDC.

-- Rex


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