On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 01:00, Barry Smoke wrote: > Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > >You cannot share users between domains. If the user is in one domain, > >it *must not* be visible to the other domains, you must use a seperate > >ldap suffix. > > > where is the documentation on this? I would think this would be a > common configuration with ldap, trying to consolidate to one ldap > directory. Anyone written any HowTo's? > since we are using smbldap-tools, I guess this means a re-write to make > those utilities work?
Most people consolidate on a single domain, when they move to a single LDAP directory. > >Check your replication, and use Samba 3.0.1, with the 'ldap replication > >sleep' parameter. This allows you to make the system wait until the > >slave LDAP server has caught up. > > > > > > > Thanks, We'll try that... > We tested putting a netbios alias into our pdc with ldap, and we can > type that alias as the domain we are logging into > on the main network, and use the variable in the smb.conf file for > various things....works great! You you the netbios alias as a domain name? This must work by some very weird quirk of how Win9X functions in the domain.... > when we got our BDC up, we tried putting our main campus domain as the > workgroup name, then put in what we were using as > the remote domain in as an alias(just like on the main server), and even > a windows 98 machine couldn't find the domain.... > does BDC break this? Netbios aliases are for netbios host names, not domains. There is exactly *one* domain name per domain. -- 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
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