[Samba] PDC and BDC... what about de shared folders??

[Daniel Müller]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:05:59 -0600, Bayardo Rivas - Open Soluciones
Hi,
with a bdc you will only have a authentication nothing else.
You have to have the same shares  on both pdc and bdc and have them sync
in realtime (drbd master/master or something cluster)
to keep the data for the users up.
My experencies in production PDC/LDAP BDC/LDAP are that if you do not have
a replicating wins on both. It could be when the pdc (or bdc) failes
a couple of users can login the other (who where logged on to the pc) need
to rejoin the machnie to the domain). Samba4wins will do that job.

Good Luck
Daniel


<bayardo.rivas at opensoluciones.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i am new in the mailing list. I am trying to figure out my 
> configuration. I have a Samba server authenticating with /etc/passwd. We

> are planing to move to LDAP and install a BDC server. The information I 
> found googleing is always related to BDC as a backup for authentication 
> but, I am not clear about the files stored in shared folders.
> 
> I am reading (everybody recomend it) this book and the number 5 specific

> chapter 
>
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-bdc.html
> 
> As said, I am not sure how to give access to the shared folders (stored 
> in PDC) when it fails, because I suppose that users will authenticate 
> with the BDC server, and What about the shared folders?? Do I have to 
> sync this folders and add in the configuration of BDC the shared
folders??
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Bayardo.