Hi, On 03/24/2012 08:09 PM, Simon Matthews wrote:
I currently have a server which is both the PDC for my domain and the file server for the network. I need to split these functions and move the PDC function to another box, while leaving the original server as the file server on which home directories and roaming profiles are stored. User credentials are stored in a tdbsam database and I am running Samba 3.5.
I can't comment on the actually samba-internal files as I haven't yet moved a samba server from one machine to the other. But as far as my understanding of windows-domains (and the excellent samba3.5 docs) goes, the pdc has its special role for two things: providing the login-information and providing at least the logon-share, maybe even the profiles-share. So I doubt that you can completely separate your servers. Of course you can set up a second samba-server (as bdc or normal domain-member) to provide additional shares. Wouldn't it be easier on your case to just move some of the shares to the second machine?
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