On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:51:49PM +0100, Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Let me guess. If I do it this way samba acts as a pdc but the > >> clients do not try to update their accounts? Are there any > >> drawbacks using this technique? > > That makes them act as BDCs instead of all trying to be a PDC. > > Trying to deploy multiple PDCs in an NT4 domain and syncing > > between them will introduce nasty race conditions that should > > be avoided.
> But we don't have multiple PDCs in _one_ domain. We have five PDCs in > _five_ domains plus one master server which acts as "administrative" > Server where all Useraccounts are entered but which has no samba > running. Does it still work then, if I let the now PDCs be BDCs? Then I don't understand what problem you're having. What isn't working in this scenario? Are you trying to synchronize the machine accounts between the domains? (If you're doing that, *why* do you have separate domains?) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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