If you have installed the pdc and bdc the right way, all clients will try to log on likely to the bdc than the pdc. So you need 2 ldap server(master/master or master/slave) for authentication and syncing. If you need wins you should at and samba4wins. Install it on both servers and replicate the databases between them. On your win clients add it as the first and second wins.
Good Luck Daniel ----------------------------------------------- EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: [email protected] Internet: www.tropenklinik.de ----------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von David Noriega Gesendet: Montag, 26. März 2012 18:27 An: [email protected] Betreff: [Samba] Is the PDC always needed? Maybe my understanding is flawed but I thought the purpose of the BDC was in the case of the PDC going offline, users could still use the system. Just this morning our PDC failed with bad memory, yet users were unable to map their network drive. The PDC is in our office while the file server is in the server room where its been setup as a domain member. On the server room subnet is its own BDC with its own ldap server. Checking the logs I see that the server room BDC is listed as the local domain server. The only thing that comes to mind is the BDC does point to the PDC as the wins server. Is that the issue? Is there a way around it? -- David Noriega System Administrator Computational Biology Initiative High Performance Computing Center University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249 Office: BSE 3.112 Phone: 210-458-7100 http://www.cbi.utsa.edu -- 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
