Hi Quentin Why not having one central PDC and use login scripts to map the home directories on the local PC to the apropriate place on a per user basis?
/Krystian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Quentin Hartman Sent: Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 17:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Looking for large-ish deployment advice Colleagues- I am working on the design of a fairly large samba deployment, and I am looking for feedback on some of my design ideas. I have 10 buildings spread out in and around a city, all interconnected via 1.5Mb leased lines. There are samba servers in each building. I have some users that move from building to building. We are using primarily windows 98 desktops, with a few 2K and XPP machines thrown in for flavor. Ideally, I would like to setup a single centrally managed and authenticated domain, but have user home directories served from member servers in the users' home buildings, as performance over the WAN links is poor. The problem I'm having is figuring out a mechanism wherein the PDC or a login script will be smart enough to know which member server to connect to for their home directories. My goal is to normally only have authentication and internet traffic traversing the WAN links, and only have user data traversing the WAN links when someone is not in their usual home building. Right now, I am planning on setting up multiple domains, one for each building, and then setting trusts between them all. This way everyone can login to their home domain and get at their data, but then still have access to the applications on the local server, regardless of which building they are in. This solution is more complex and has more management overhead than I would like, but is the only way I have come up with that I know will work. Anyone have any better ideas? As I've only done relatively small and simple samba deployments in the past, I'm sure there are some more advanced features that I don't know about that might make this possible. Would DFS work? -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman- Technology Coordinator South Lane School District Cottage Grove, Oregon Office- 541.767.3778 Mobile- 541-501-1197 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
