By fail-over I mean if the authentication server fails or is down, my user would still be able to login and use the workstation.
-mark
----- Original Message ----- From: "John H Terpstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Msdigital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] LDAP master-slave and BDC ?
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:04, Msdigital wrote:I am a bit confused, about the LDAP master-slave and BDC. I have an
Samba-LDAP server that serves as my PDC. All my users authenticate to this
server. I would like to set up a BDC for failover. What is the difference
between a BDC and a LDAP Slave server?
A BDC is a NT4 domain controller that handles network logon authentication.
A Samba BDC will relay all network account updates to a PDC. Only the PDC will
write to the passdb backend. A BDC will read authentication data from the
passdb backend it is configured to use.
A Slave LDAP server is a read-only mirror of an LDAP Master server. A PDC
would normally be directed at a Master LDAP server, but can work with a Slave
LDAP server. If a PDC is configured to use a Slave LDAP server all write
requests to the directory will be handled via a referral to the Master LDAP
server. In other words, all write requests are handled by the Master LDAP
server.
It does not matter whether a BDC uses a Master or a Slave LDAP server - it only ever reads directory information from it.
What do you mean by fail-over? A BDC can handle network logon requests, but it
can never replace a PDC. In other words, the PDC is still the weakest link.
If a PDC is off the air for a prolonged outage the network will eventually
fail.
Second part.
Does anyone on this list have this type of configuration, PDC-BDC or Master/Slave and can help do the same?
Please refer to the book: "Samba-3 by Example" Chapters 5 and 6. You can obtain a copy from:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf
Enjoy.
- John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668
Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.
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