On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:45:26AM -0500, Collins, Kevin wrote: > But, I can also see that I may not *need* the independent PDCs that > trust each other, but maybe a PDC and 2 BDCs. I'm looking hard at the > latter just so I do not hit any major hurdles when moving to SAMBA. > Thinking along those lines I must pose the question: Will a SAMBA BDC > function as an NT BDC in that an NT BDC will cache (i.e. store locally) > user/group/SID information and only update/sync with the PDC at a > specified intervals?
Having one PDC and two BDCs also gives you greater fault-tolerance than having three domains with a single PDC each. Samba+LDAP can give you this fault tolerance; it can't give you trust relationships today, without a lot of finagling. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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