Good explanation. Better than mine.
I tend to think of the roaming profiles as part of the logon experience,
since they sync with your computer when you logon. Actually, I found
roaming profiles to be more trouble than they were worth so I don't use
them anyway.
On 07/01/13 17:36, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
On 01/07/13 19:56, steve wrote:
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Yes. We take stand alone machines and network them by adding a DC and
what we call a file server. What I'd like to know is why some guys here
call what seems to be what we call a file server, a member server. I
feel we're missing out on something.
In both NT4 style and AD domains you have servers called domain
servers that serve identification information and provide
authentication services. These servers may also do other things such
as serve files, but it is the identification and authentication
services that make them domain servers. Any server providing
identification and authentication services is a domain server
regardless of anything else it does.
You can then have other servers, such as file servers, print servers,
web servers etc. that are joined to the domain, and thus you can use
your domain credentials to authenticate to these servers, in the case
of an AD domain using the Kerberos ticket you got when you logged onto
your workstation. However crucially they don't provide identification
or authentication services. These servers are called member servers.
With larger domains it makes sense to separate out your file and print
servers from your domain servers, so that the domain servers are
effectively only providing the identification and authentication
services and your file and print services are handed off to dedicated
machines for the task. There is no way a domain server is going to
cope at a large University for example with tens of thousands of users.
This however is very basic Windows domain terminology/knowledge which
I would expect anyone offering advice on Samba to fully understand first.
JAB.
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