[Samba] TOSHARG-BDC.xml translate finish and some bug found

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Fri Jun 19 14:48:46 GMT 2009


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:19:58AM +0900, OPC oota wrote:
> Samba-3 can act as a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) to another Samba Primary Domain Controller (PDC). A
> Samba-3 PDC can operate with an LDAP account backend. The LDAP backend can be either a common master LDAP
> server or a slave server. The use of a slave LDAP server has the benefit that when the master is down, clients
> may still be able to log onto the network.  This effectively gives Samba a high degree of scalability and is
>                      ---------
>                      logon to?
> an effective solution for large organizations. If you use an LDAP slave server for a PDC, you will need to

> Whenever a user logs into a Windows NT4/200x/XP Professional workstation,
>                 --------- log onto? or logon to? 
>                           (login -> unix  ,logon -> windows?)
> the workstation connects to a domain controller (authentication server) to validate that
> the username and password the user entered are valid. If the information entered
Afaik "logon to" is correct as well, but I'm not a native speaker.
John?

> The domain SID has to be the same on the PDC and the BDC. In Samba versions pre-2.2.5, the domain SID was
> stored in the file <filename>private/MACHINE.SID</filename>.  For all versions of Samba released since 2.2.5
> the domain SID is stored in the file <filename>private/secrets.tdb</filename>. This file is unique to each
> server and cannot be copied from a PDC to a BDC; the BDC will generate a new SID at startup. It will overwrite
> the PDC domain SID with the newly created BDC SID.  There is a procedure that will allow the BDC to aquire the
>                                                                                                     ------
>                                                                                                     acquire?
> domain SID. This is described here.
Thanks, fixed.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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