Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:19:58AM +0900, OPC oota wrote: >> Samba-3 can act as a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) to another Samba Primary >> Domain Controller (PDC). A >> Samba-3 PDC can operate with an LDAP account backend. The LDAP backend can >> be either a common master LDAP >> server or a slave server. The use of a slave LDAP server has the benefit >> that when the master is down, clients >> may still be able to log onto the network. This effectively gives Samba a >> high degree of scalability and is >> --------- >> logon to? >> an effective solution for large organizations. If you use an LDAP slave >> server for a PDC, you will need to > >> Whenever a user logs into a Windows NT4/200x/XP Professional workstation, >> --------- log onto? or logon to? >> (login -> unix ,logon -> windows?) >> the workstation connects to a domain controller (authentication server) to >> validate that >> the username and password the user entered are valid. If the information >> entered > Afaik "logon to" is correct as well, but I'm not a native speaker. > John?
Prentice Hall requested that change. Both are in fact correct and it is simply a matter of preference. My preference is in fact "logon to", so if we want to change it to that you have my +1. - John T. >> The domain SID has to be the same on the PDC and the BDC. In Samba versions >> pre-2.2.5, the domain SID was >> stored in the file <filename>private/MACHINE.SID</filename>. For all >> versions of Samba released since 2.2.5 >> the domain SID is stored in the file >> <filename>private/secrets.tdb</filename>. This file is unique to each >> server and cannot be copied from a PDC to a BDC; the BDC will generate a new >> SID at startup. It will overwrite >> the PDC domain SID with the newly created BDC SID. There is a procedure >> that will allow the BDC to aquire the >> >> ------ >> >> acquire? >> domain SID. This is described here. > Thanks, fixed. > > Cheers, > > Jelmer -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
