No, this is not possible. Samba3 cannot act domain controller for AD domains, nor can it act as a BDC for NT domains.
Samba4, which is currently in alpha, will have the ability to serve as an AD domain controller as well as a read-only domain controller along side Windows servers. Some people are using Samba4 in production today, but I'm not aware of anyone using Samba4 as a domain controller (read-only or otherwise) with Windows domain controllers in production. In short, its still alpha. On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Ryan Whelan <ryan.whe...@tbamerica.com> wrote: > I'm not sure this is possible, I'm sort of leaning to the negative, but I > thought i would ask anyway. (I am not a windows or domain networking guy) > > We have a large (and growing) number of windows servers. Many of them are > DCs. While I read Samba can't serve as a BDC to a Windows PDC, can it just > forward requests to the windows DC and just cache the results for future > look ups? (with an adjustable cache time out of course) > > We have a bunch of remote locations that don't need to be able to make > changes to the domain and just replacing their DCs with something that will > cache queries to the main DC would be ideal. > > Like I said, not my area of expertise. > > Thanks! > > Ryan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba