On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:36:48PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > Multi domain DC is never going to happen in samba, it just doesn't make > > sense, as the protocols used (eg. SMB) will not be able to support such > > thing, so please let's stop to talk about multi-DC samba. > > I'm not so sure on this one. > > Some parts of the protocol might need to be told 'if not specified, use > this', but I'm not sure the statement holds across everything. > > For example, I don't see any reason why we can't 'pretend' that any > secondary domain is a 'trusted domain'. This would allow (for example) > a resource DC, which has each machine in it, but no users, and an > organizational DC to coexist nicely. (This is quite a common setup, > btw).
But not on the same machine. > For the rare cases where clients contact the trusted domain directly, we > could have either a separate Samba on another IP, or they could contact > the remote DC directly. That's the point. All this multi-domain stuff is "rare". I don't want the complexity in mainline Samba. I don't think Simo, Gerry, Volker or JF do either. Let just remove the multi-domain stuff for now and try and get 3.0 in a shippable state. Jeremy.
