[Samba] TOSHARG-BDC.xml translate finish and some bug found
John H Terpstra - Samba Team
jht at samba.org
Fri Jun 19 15:15:50 GMT 2009
Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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?
Prentice Hall requested that change. Both are in fact correct and it is
simply a matter of preference. My preference is in fact "logon to", so
if we want to change it to that you have my +1.
- John T.
>> 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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