Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> I need to setup a PDC on Samba 3. To achieve this I followed the steps >>> described on the Samba docs and on some other websites I found after >>> googling for a while. From the Samba side everything seems to be OK: >>> >> Sorry to touch basics but .... >> Is your record of the form? >> _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.mydomain.com IN SRV 0 100 389 <PDC server>.mydomain.com >> and port 389 is open on server >> It was a long time ago I set this up... but I do vaguely remember something >> anout DOMAIN names, and PDC names needing to map onto DNS server names and z >> one names, but my memory may be playing tricks :-) >> > > These DNS entries are not required for an NT4 domain, which is what a > Samba 3.x PDC hosts/creates. These entries are used [primarily] by an > AD (Windows 2003) domain. The absence of these entries will not prevent > clients from joining the Samba 3 domain. > > http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html > > -- > Adam Tauno Williams > Network & Systems Administrator > Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com > Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org > > Unfortunately, my XP Professional machine refused point blank to connect to the server until this DNS entry was setup, XP seems to use the service location protocols by default, and also is little more geared towards an AD environment even when talking to the now unsupported Domain Services side of things. I spent a frustrating couple of days trying to get to the bottom of what was going on. It is a relatively simple kludge which worked for me.
It was not required with Samba 2 and it probably is not required for the Linux Samba client.
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