On 1/17/06, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're lacking some ingenuity here. Every Samba server is the PDC for > it's local physical network, and a BDC for the remote network.
Ummm... I'm pretty sure that's completely wrong. An NTLM server can only be one thing; either a member, a PDC, or a BDC. If you want a BDC, you need to run another instance of Samba. Can you site a reference please? > (This is part of Windows I don't > know too much about. However, I have read that roaming profiles is > usually a bad idea.) I disagree strongly, and so do a great many other doze admins. Roaming profiles go a long way towards making Windows system administration tollerable. > My (albeit limited) understanding of roaming > profiles is that they're stored on the DC, no? The information on where to *locate* the roaming profile is stored as part of the user account, on the DCs. The actual profile can be on any server you like. > If so, then wouldn't make it rather irrellevent whether you have one > or two domains, since the profile is probably best served from a > local system? You can (and should) do this, regardless of how many NTLM domains you have. > If this is the case, then it would actually seem that 2 domains > would be easier to deal with, since the only time a user experienced > a slow log in time would be when at the other location and needing to > download their profile (perhaps this is why I've read roaming profiles > are bad?) Windoze will generally detect when the "master copy" (my term) of the profile is on the other side of a slow link, and used the cached profile (local copy) instead. (Or create a temporary profile, if no cached profile is available.) > As an aside, this sounds amazingly like having an NFS-based home > directory and trying to NFS mount it across a T1 from 3000 miles away! Pretty close. The major difference is that Windows has all user operaration occur on a local copy of the profile, and syncronizes the local copy to the "master copy" at logon and logoff. So you have most of the same trouble, just at different times. > Let me tell you, udp-based NFS over a T1 is *really* slow! :) I'm willing to bet SMB is worse. :-) -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
