> We have a NT4 Domain in our mainoffice. > Now we have to install servers all over germany. > (About 20 locations) The offices are connectet over DSL/VPN. > We think about using samba to have a stable and inexpensive solution. > Is there a solution to use samba over a wide area network?
I'm not clear on what you mean, we have a single Samba domain over fifteen locations connected by a combination of point-to-point cricuits, frame-relay, and ISDN. If your TCP/IP infrastructure is solid implementing Samba is quite painless. > We have alraedy one standalone samba-domain (domain-logons with > machine-accounts) in a small office in Berlin. > It works fine and makes no Problems. > What kind of problems we have to face, if we want to install samba servers > connectet only over DSL/VPN to the "mother" in our mainoffice. > Whats about: > - authentication > - broken connections to the domain BDC's (or multiple PDCs) and LDAP. > - single point of administration LDAP > - login scripts Login scripts work the same as with a Windows DC. > - dhcp/dns LDAP (Both ISC DHCP and BIND - as shipped with SuSe 9.2 - support an LDAP backend instead of zonefiles, etc...) > we are working at this time with MS. So we have not the best practice in > Linux/samba. We have to learn a lot. (also english:-)) Best practices are the same as with Windows, where to put DC's, how many users per DC, etc... Just the technologies are a little different. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba