Re: [Samba] smbpasswd or tdbsam? Which one?

2009-01-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
I do use it, though, at it works fine mostly. I've heard it explained that the reasoning for avoiding TDBSAM is that if you're running a PDC, you probably also need features not provided by TDBSAM. In many cases, that isn't exactly accurate. We have MANY users, but our needs are fairly simple

[Samba] smbpasswd or tdbsam? Which one?

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Souza
All, I have a site with around 200 concurrent users, with a user count of over a thousand... I'm currently using just one PDC using the smbpasswd backend. I currently do not want to go into an LDAP backend... but would tdbsam be a better alternative? One of the issues I have is, pretty randomly,

Re: [Samba] smbpasswd or tdbsam? Which one?

2009-01-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
According to the Samba documentation, smbpasswd is not even recommended for a PDC... -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] smbpasswd or tdbsam? Which one?

2009-01-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
I was asking the same question not too many days ago. I went with LDAP. It is not as difficult as some people think. It seems somewhat daunting at first but then you quickly get the grasp of it. It simply *works* and solves *a lot* of challenges at the same time, leaving you ready for

Re: [Samba] smbpasswd or tdbsam? Which one?

2009-01-23 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think you want tdbsam. There's virtually no downside. =R Aaron Souza wrote: All, I have a site with around 200 concurrent users, with a user count of over a thousand... I'm currently using just one PDC using the smbpasswd backend. I currently

Re: [Samba] smbpasswd or tdbsam? Which one?

2009-01-23 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel Medalha wrote: According to the Samba documentation, smbpasswd is not even recommended for a PDC... I do use it, though, at it works fine mostly. I've heard it explained that the reasoning for avoiding TDBSAM is that if you're running a PDC,