On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:28:30AM -0500, Matt Schillinger wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:44, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > You're trying to do it backwards. You want one PDC and multiple BDC's, > > not the other way around. Take the machines that are slated for PDC use > > and just use them as BDC's instead. You would do the same thing with > > Windows servers, one PDC in the main building and a BDC at each remote > > site. > > > I understand what the standard would be, but the reason that I'm trying > 'backwards' is that I want to keep authentication traffic off of the T-1 > connections that are used for internet/interbuilding traffic.
In theory using BDCs should help with that. A machine needing authentication should just look for any server advertising itself as being able to handle logins. I'm a little fuzzy on the internals of how Windows/Samba does that, but BDCs do handle domain logins, not just failover. -- Michael Heironimus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
