On Wed, 15 May 2002, Clayton Rogers wrote: > On reflection, I have decided to refine my question. > > We are moving to using a samba pdc for our Council (migrating from > winnt4). We have set this up in a experimental area and feel very > comfortable with having a samba pdc, in addition, our primary file and > print servers are samba, and have been for the past 4 years. What we > would really like to know is how to add additional samba servers! Our > questions are: > > Q1. If we want to add a samba server, what is the best practice in this > community? For example, if we add another linux machine to provide more > hard disk space for our clients > > 1. Would you mount its drives via nfs to the pdc or use samba on the > additional machine to serve its disk directly? > 2. Or is there some other way to do it????
rsync the smbpasswd file among servers (or use LDAP) and setup a MS-DFS root share on the first Samba box. > Q2. If you use samba on the new machine to share out the resource, what > do we set the security variable to in the smb.conf, DOMAIN or SERVER???? > Do you need a machine account on the pdc for the new samba server? I prefer to set all my servers as "security = user" and rsync smbpasswd (over ssh) or use LDAP but others may have a different preference. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
