[samba] ?BDC & LDAP

[Chuck Kollars]

Let me try again to pose my question since I seem to have obfuscated my main point: My previous experience with Samba suggests that the "home" directories *must* be on the PDC, that the file sharing function and the domain login function of Samba are too closely linked to prize them apart. Is this really true? Or is it possible to configure Samba so the domain login function just *points*to* the "home" directory on some other Samba server without making any additional steps visible to a user? If so, what are the general outlines of such a configuration?

>From experience with Microsoft, it seems prudent for so many clients/users to have both PDC and BDC for redundancy. But if the "domain controller" and the "file sharing" parts of Samba are as closely linked as I fear, I don't understand how I can do this.

thanks!


Playnet wrote:

> úÄÒÁ×ÓÔ×ÕÊÔÅ, Chuck.
>
> ÷Ù ÐÉÓÁÌÉ 16 ÆÅ×ÒÁÌÑ 2006 Ç., 22:23:38:
>
> CK> Can I set up a *second* server as a BDC yet still have all my
> CK> file-share requests routed to the *first* server? In other words
> CK> can I have *two* domain controllers but only *one* file share? If
> CK> I can, what's the rough sketch of the configuration I want?
> Maybe you only need first computer as PDC and second as fileserver
> (domain member)? Or you want PDC and BDC?
>
> ...
> CK> directory to a drive and b] validate credentials right away so it
> CK> doesn't need to be done at file save time. Currently I do all this
> CK> with only *one* Samba server acting as both a file share and a PDC;
> It's normally
>
> CK>  it works tolerably well, but seems overly risky.)
> Why?
>
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