On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 17:44 +0200, Thierry Lacoste wrote:
> From the Samba Howto:
> 
>  The BDC is biased to answer logon requests in preference to the PDC. On a
>  network segment that has a BDC and a PDC, the BDC will most likely service
>  network logon requests.

This isn't anything I've ever observed.  

> While this appear to be the case on my test network all my tests show that
> this is not true on my production network.
> AFAICS both networks have the same software configurations and on each
> network the BDC runs on the same hardware as the PDC.
> 
> Are there special things to do to make the BDC bias work?
> How can I troubleshoot the reason why it does not work?

It has more to do with the order that the WINS server returns the
addresses.  There were some plans to have this randomised at one point. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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