Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > Collins, Kevin wrote: > > Hi All: > > > > Excuse me for butting in here, but I'm planning a migration from WinNT 4 > > to Samba in the near future and this thread has caused me to worry a > > little. > > > > Take the case that I'm planning: 3 Domains each to its own LAN > > (connected via 128k Frame Relay lines to form a WAN) Each domain > > currently has a NT 4 PDC and each domain "trusts" each other. How do I > > accomplish these "trusts" only using Samba PDCs? > > With difficulty. There are a number of ways to hack round the problem > which you'll find if you search, but it's not supported functionality ATM. > > > Meaning: If I rip out the NT Domains, replace the PDCs with Samba PDCs > > and rebuild new domains (new Domain Names, new NetBIOS names for the > > PDCs, etc.) How do I get the three domains to once again trust each > > other? Is there a Samba command to do this? > > Not at present. The current release branch of Samba (2.2.x) does not > support trust relationships between domains. Samba 3.x will support this > functionality, and I believe the code is already in CVS to do it. > > You could get an alpha of Samba 3.x, or a CVS checkout, and try to make > it work with that. If I were you, I think I'd try this, but run 2 copies > of Samba on each server, 3.x alpha for the PDC aspect, and 2.2.x for the > actual file/print serving. You can bind two IP's to the NIC in your > machines, and run 3.x on one IP, and 2.2 on the other.
The file & print part of Samba 3.0 is it's most stable part, so you don't gain much by this. However, the domain trusts stuff basicly doesn't yet function - we still need to work on some details. Now if you want to help us with that... :-) Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
