On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 01:00 pm, Quentin Hartman wrote: > Another list member suggested using individual logon scripts, and as far > as I can tell at this point, that is the only solution that will work.
Hi Quentin, If it were me, I'd get a copy of Samba3 By Example and look at some of the suggested LDAP installations for inspiration. Chapters 6 and 7 will be most helpful I expect. Specifically, I might set up a Samba/LDAP Master in the main building, and Samba/LDAP slaves in each of the other buildings. The Samba/LDAP master will be your PDC and the Samba/LDAP slaves will be your BDCs. They will replicate in the background. If you can organize which (few) buildings students roam in, you could set up separate network segments for each of those "roaming zones", and have roaming profiles limited to those "zones". This may not fit your physical network topology however. Keep in mind, that if everyone is pulling their files from the main building's NT4 servers now, your peak WAN traffic should actually decrease with distributed BDCs. This is because replication takes place in the background, so users will mostly be pulling from the user directories from their local BDC. Again, by using network segments (and/or traffic shaping) you can force this behavior. Hope this is helpful, Mark -- _________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: www.RNoME.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
