[Samba] Architecture VPN and Samba with ADS 2003 help needed

Guillaume Riviere guillaume.riviere at vslitc.com
Thu Oct 12 05:01:38 GMT 2006


Henrik Zagerholm wrote:
>
> 11 okt 2006 kl. 07:03 skrev Guillaume Riviere:
>
>> Dear all Samba list,
>>
>> I'm currently facing some little problem with samba, I search for 
>> advices on
>> our offices architecture. This is what we have:
>>
>> - We got 2 offices with "unstable" ADSL connection (sometime more 
>> that 5 connections shutdown a day)
>> - We use a  VPN and our 2 offices are on the following internal subnets:
>>    Office 1: 10.0.0.0/24
>>    Office 2: 10.0.1.0/24
>> There is no firewall restrictions between the 2 offices with the VPN.
>>
>> - The Office 1 got a ADS Server 2003 (ads_office1) and a Debian/ 
>> Sarge with Samba 3.0.23C file server (fs_office1), all is ok, working 
>> very well
>> - The Office 2 got only a Debian/Sarge Samba 3.0.23c file server 
>> (call it fs_office2) connected to the remote VPN ADS 2003. This server
>> is in a DOMAIN security mode (because I read that the ADS security 
>> mode is currently not so stable)
>
> Where did you read that? :)
>>
>> All my users (Windows XP SP2 only)  must be in the same ADS network 
>> (Exchange service, sharing of file, internet access control)
>> We face multiple problems is with the second office, each time we got 
>> a disconnection, we have to re-join the domain, restart
>> samba and winbind, also this Office 2 cannot access to the file 
>> server  in a disconnected mode (some time no internet in this
>> office for a whole day)
>>
>> So, I would like your advice on the following questions:
>>
>> - Do we have to change the server fs_office2  to a Microsoft 2003 
>> server, is this the best solution ?
>> - Do Samba can configure itself to use a cache system or a domain 
>> duplication or a domain master in ADS 2003?
>> is there solution to make samba deliver locally the credential  in 
>> case of networks
>> disconnection ?  is it stable to go on this solution ?
> Pure ADS member with AD replication is not available inte the SAMBA 3 
> branch yet. SAMBA 4 is supposed to handle this but is currently only 
> in TP4 pre alpha stage and should only be used in testing purposes.
>
>>
>> If yes (I hope), how to do this, what is the est architecture, the 
>> best samba configuration ?
> Unfortunately I think that the best solution is to have a W2003 at the 
> second office also until SAMBA 4 is stable but hopefully some more 
> experienced samba users have another idea. :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Regards,
>> Guillaume
>
> Cheers,
> henrik
>>
>>
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>
Dear Henrik, Dear All,

What about the new offline mode in winbind (in 3.0.23) ? can it solve 
the problem ?
do I need to install pam and kerberos for this ?


Regards,
Guillaume


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