>I am trying to set up an additional domain server within my network >using SAMBA and LDAP. There's a problem that I think is with LDAP. If >any of you have set up a system like this, I would appreciate your >expertise. > What does your current setup look like? What have you already established?
>Question # 1: My PDC, which controls the domain and SAMBA, should >clearly use LDAP server. Should the additional server use SAMBA server >or client? Workstations will sign onto the domain and then onto shares >on both the PDC and the additional server. > LDAP and Samba is much like AD and Windows-Servers, only with the old Domain like PDC/BDC setup instead of the DC setup. By using LDAP you can share e.g. user, group, machine accounts between different linux/ samba servers. So you only have to add/change/modify the LDAP based data once and it will be distributed to all participating linux servers. >Question # 2: If I copy the / directory to a flash drive, can I just >copy it back to the hard drive if I end up with a configuration >impossibility? I've had to reload the system once already because of >LDAP configuration problems, and I'd rather not do it again. > >The SAMBA shares on the PDC are working fine. But I can't share thing >on the other server unless I set up a smbpasswd set, and that's a pain. > Well, you copied your configuration to the second server? Did you configure your LDAP-server to replicate data with each other? You only need to backup you /etc directory, because that's where the configuration is stored. If you misconfigured something, you can easily go back to the previous state by restoring the old configuration files. Cheers, Christian =========================================================== Christian Rost roCon - Informationstechnologie Glatzer Weg 4 44534 Lünen fon: +49 (0) 2306 910 658 fax: +49 (0) 2306 910 664 url: http://www.rocon-it.de -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
