[Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-12 Thread Jim C.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Argh! You are correct. I thought this was the one really good article that Buchan Milne wrote. It seems to have disapeared. | http://linsec.ca/bin/view/Main/LdapAdvanced | NO, this article is about LDAP mainly, and says nothing about |

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-12 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
John H Terpstra wrote: NT4 does not replicate or synchronize desktop profiles - nor does Samba. Where on earth did you obtain the idea that this ought to happen? Well, I know Samba doesn't replicate profiles. I just asked what is the best way to do it. The notion that all roaming profiles are

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-12 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
John H Terpstra wrote: I thought of this approach: - keep profile size to the minimum (20-30 megs), How will you control the size of the profile? I can not see a practical solution to do this. Didn't think of it yet. Several years ago, in a rather big university facility I saw something like

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-12 Thread Gmes Gza
Tomasz Chmielewski rta: John H Terpstra wrote: I thought of this approach: - keep profile size to the minimum (20-30 megs), How will you control the size of the profile? I can not see a practical solution to do this. Didn't think of it yet. Several years ago, in a rather big university facility

[Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-12 Thread Jim C.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: | Hello, Thinking out loud hmmm Small storeage area network? Gigabit ethernet might be cheap enough. Perhaps you could create a Gigabit backbone and basically do a mirror setup? Would RAID help? Have you been thinking

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-12 Thread John H Terpstra
On Sunday 12 December 2004 06:15, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: John H Terpstra wrote: NT4 does not replicate or synchronize desktop profiles - nor does Samba. Where on earth did you obtain the idea that this ought to happen? Well, I know Samba doesn't replicate profiles. I just asked what

[Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-11 Thread Jim C.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Or perhaps I don't understand something? Just a guess but a BDC is probably going to do the same thing with the files that the LDAP backend would do. I.E. replicate the data from the server. Jim C. - -- -

[Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-11 Thread gints neimanis
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: As a consequence, this also means, that on each server there has to be a copy of a profile of a given user, right? No, not right. The user roaming profile is stored only on one server. Maybe you may rename the each SAMBA server in each location in the same NetBIOS name,

[Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-11 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
gints neimanis wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: As a consequence, this also means, that on each server there has to be a copy of a profile of a given user, right? No, not right. The user roaming profile is stored only on one server. So what is the sense of having BDCs? I guess the biggest load

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-11 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: | Jim C. wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | | Or perhaps I don't understand something? | | Just a guess but a BDC is probably going to do the same thing with the | files that the LDAP backend would do. I.E. replicate the data from the |

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-11 Thread John H Terpstra
On Saturday 11 December 2004 13:06, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: gints neimanis wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: As a consequence, this also means, that on each server there has to be a copy of a profile of a given user, right? No, not right. The user roaming profile is stored only on one

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
As a consequence, this also means, that on each server there has to be a copy of a profile of a given user, right? No, not right. The user roaming profile is stored only on one server. So what is the sense of having BDCs? So distribute the profiles. Where the user's profile is located

Re: [Samba] Re: PDC, BDCs - how do you synchronize roaming profiles?

2004-12-11 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Jim C. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Or perhaps I don't understand something? Just a guess but a BDC is probably going to do the same thing with the files that the LDAP backend would do. I.E. replicate the data from the server. But how should it be done? I have read the