NO!I have looked a bit through some of the archives for this list, and I have caught different ideas on this matter.. I've also read through the HOWTOs on how to do this stuff, but I haven't received the same results that I was expecting, so I need someone to help me out a bit, give me a definite YES or NO and if YES, how?
I have the latest release candidate of samba 3 installed on redhat-9. I want to make it a BDC with my existing NT 4 domain in a remote office on its own subnet. I also want to use Winbind to help keep from having to have local accounts on the machines, so anybody can do what they want to on any server. I have no LDAP server to play with either,
So, the question is: Can Samba 3 function as a BDC in an NT4 domain, with an NT4 server as PDC? If it is possible, what are the tricks to getting the samba server to join the domain as a BDC and communicate properly with the PDC? If it is NOT possible, does it then become necessary to make the PDC of the domain a samba machine, and have all the NT machines function as BDCs?
I appreciate any help that you can give me with this.. I know there has to be tons of people asking this same question over and over again, but again I do appreciate any help.. Thanks!
Gabriel Matthews Network Support Cinergy Communications
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Samba is able to be a PDC, or a BDC to another Samba, at least this is written in docs. The reason is, that NT4 domain controlers keep domain users, groups, etc in a special part (SAM) of their registry. About the possibility of using winbind on the Samba BDC, it sounds interesting, but I don't know if winbind has a cacheing functionality, needed, if you realy want a true backup sollution.
Good Luck!
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