What samba gives you is the ability to specify different profile paths for different users - you could thus split your user load between say 10 servers with their profiles located on their own servers. It does not however solve the problem of the profile only being available on one server. If you want the users' profiles to follow them around and always be serverd from the local server they log onto, user something like rsync - or a central nfs store on a seperate server that just stores profiles.
I assume you want the same server (eg. server A) to always server say user A's profile - no matter which dc he logs onto - this ldap will do. Andre -----Original Message----- From: Robert Rati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 September 2003 12:03 To: Radio Gong 2000 GmbH & Co. KG [Technik] Cc: Andre de Koning; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Help using multiple file servers I'm not sure this will solve the problem I am looking at. I can see an LDAP server for authentication (although I currently don't have one setup and would prefer not to have to set one up), but how does an LDAP server help with the home directory and profile serving? If a user logs onto machine A which is on subnet A, then samba server A would authenticate against the LDAP server and serve the home dir and profile. What happens if the same user logs onto machine B which is on subnet B? The samba server B would authenticate with the LDAP server, but would the user's home directory and profile be served from server A? Will the LDAP solution you suggest provide this ability? Ideally, I'd like all the users to be authenticated through one samba server (let's say server A), and the home directories and profiles for those users to be served from the authenticating server (server A) or an alternate samba server (server B). Rob Radio Gong 2000 GmbH & Co. KG [Technik] wrote: > Hi, > > the best way, I think, is to use LDAP for authenticating. So you've one > server, which does all the stuff for you. > > The other way is to write a little and simple script, which "keeps the > passwordfiles in sync": > > #!/bin/sh > # 08-30-2000 > # Synchronize the user accounts every night > > scp /etc/passwd 192.168.10.2:/etc/passwd > scp /etc/shadow 192.168.10.2:/etc/shadow > scp /etc/group 192.168.10.2:/etc/group > scp /etc/gshadow 192.168.10.2:/etc/gshadow > scp /etc/samba/smbpasswd 192.168.10.2:/etc/samba/smbpasswd > > cp -v /etc/passwd /data/backup/user/ > cp -v /etc/shadow /data/backup/user/ > cp -v /etc/group /data/backup/user/ > cp -v /etc/gshadow /data/backup/user/ > cp -v /etc/samba/smbpasswd /data/backup/user/ > > # END > > I installed an ssh-key, so a cronjob can do the job for me... > Makes no sense but it's nice... > > :-) > > Greetings > > Sascha > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
