Re: [Samba] BDC problem!? user can't get profile/map drive

[Paul Gienger]

Top posting is bad...
Change PDC to %L and you are done, the clients will request the share 
from the DC they are connected to.
While that is a fine THEORY, when the machine that holds the data is 
dead your profile is still missing.  If you simply point to another 
server all you're going to get is either old crusty data from the last 
time your PDC was unavailable or no data at all.  What I would suggest, 
is another machine that holds this data for you. 

If you want, you could have it sharing the data via NFS to your samba 
machines, or point directly to the machine as a samba member server that 
holds the data for the path of the drives as opposed to %L.


My problem is that when my PDC is down, my BDC can
pick up the user authorization but is not able to help
client to mount to the home directory.
I am using openldap to store user account, I found the
samba home drive entry in the openldap as //PDC/homes.
I don't know whether this prevent my BDC to help
client to mount to the //BDC/homes instead...
Do anyone know how to solve this??
Thanks a lot!
Carmen
--- G�mes G�za <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

I would suggest to rsync the profile and home shares
periodically, between DCs, of course it would mean a lot of disk
space waste :-(
Cheers
Geza
  

Dear Paul:
Would you show me how can I implement the BDC so
    
that
  

the user can mount to the BDC home and get the
    
profile
  

on BDC instead when the PDC is down??
Thanks a lot!
Carmen
--- Paul Gienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
    

Then I try to shut down my PDC to check whether
        

the
  

client login through the BDC. I found that my
   
        
client
 
      

(on Window NT) are able to authenticated by BDC,
   
        
but
 
      

   
        
Makes sense
 
      

it keeps saying that it can't retrieve the user
profile. Also the user's home drive can't map to
client PC machine.
   
        
Also makes sense.
 
      

the map drive and the profile path as //PDC/homes
   
        
and
 
      

//PDC/profiles. Is that mean, if I am using BDC,
        

it
  

   
        
is
 
      

failed to find the //PDC/homes and
        

//PDC/profiles?
  

   
        
If your pdc has gone down you will most certainly
have a problem mounting drives/accessing files on that machine,
just as when any other server goes down you can't access services 
hosted
      

on
  

it.  If this is your goal, you need to find some way to make the
pdc/home data highly available, such as storing them on a seperate
      

server
  

that the users are then pointed to for the data.  There are many ways
to go about doing this, you just need to find the way that works
      

best
  

for your situation.
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