Sorry, that was a bit vague, my apologies. My real question is, in the event where netbios is not being passed between network segments (In this particular case, a WAN), where the PDC is at one site, and the BDC is at another, are there any provisions for failover? Or am I just going to have to run them both as PDC's for their network segment?
Thanks again for your time, I really appreciate it. -- Cy > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:34:04 +1100 > From: Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Cybr0t McWhulf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] PDC/BDC Questions > > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 08:44, Cybr0t McWhulf wrote: > > Software: > > OS: Redhat 9 > > Samba Ver: Samba 3.0.0 (Plus excel writelock patch, waiting for 3.0.2!) > > OpenLDAP Ver: 2.0.27-8 > > > > Just a quick question about PDC / BDC interaction, my plan is to distribute > > Samba (with slave ldap backend) BDCs to remote facilities, as well as > > have one on each network segment in the hopes of avoiding unnecessary > > nmb broadcast traffic. > > > > My question is this: Will the PDC / BDC(s), acting as master browsers > > for their segments, exchange netbios information (i.e. netbios names, > > browsing info, etc.) via nmb? Or do they exchange this information via > > tcp? Or at all for that matter? > > If they can't see each other, they will not exchange it at all. If it > is intended that they not see each other, you may set each up as a 'PDC' > on each site. > > > Also as a complete sidenote, what I think would be a nifty feature: > > (This would only be useful to those running an ldap backend (possibly > > mysql?) > > When setting an account to disabled, have an option to set the loginShell > > attribute to something, such as /sbin/nologin (Should be configurable of > > course). Should be a fairly trivial thing.. just altering another > > attribute, if my C foo wasn't so weak I might attempt to add this > > feature myself. Just a possible suggestion :) > > We would rather not modify attributes that are not mandated by our > schema, but I would certainly look favourably on a patch that allowed > integrated updates with things like posixAccount and the shadow > attributes. (The problem with setting a shell to /sbin/nologin is > deciding what to set it back to...) > > Andrew Bartlett > > -- > Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
