Re: [Samba] Backup Domain Controller

[Jason Baker]

On a related note. How do I know if my BDC is actually working? I am 
able to run getent passwd and see all the correct users (even with the 
BDC disconnected to the network) and if I add a new user it shows up on 
the BDC, but how do I know that the machines on my network are using the 
BDC? How does load balancing work, are the workstations only sent to the 
BDC is the PDC is "too busy"? Is there a tool available to monitor the 
way the network load balances? Maybe I could use Wireshark to watch 
network traffic and see the authentication requests. Just curious.


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On 4/10/2007 11:54 AM, Wolfgang Ratzka wrote:

Jason Baker schrieb:

  

I created a BDC for my network, running a slave LDAP server. Do I need
specify the same workgroup as the PDC in the smb.conf? I was thinking
I'd put it on a different workgroup just for organizational purposes.



The workgroup name serves as the domain name if you are running your samba
servers as domain controlers. A BDC must have the same domain name as the PDC,
so the answer is "no".
Once you start with PDCs and BDCs you must stop thinking of workgroups. You have
a domain.
  

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Re: [Samba] Backup Domain Controller

[Jason Baker]

Thanks for the answer. I'm just going to keep everything on the same 
domain to eliminate complexity. I suppose I could set up another subnet, 
but that sounds too much like work.


*Jason Baker
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*Glastender Inc.*
5400 North Michigan Road
Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA
800.748.0423
Phone: 989.752.4275 ext. 228
Fax: 989.752.
www.glastender.com 

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On 4/10/2007 11:54 AM, Wolfgang Ratzka wrote:

Jason Baker schrieb:

  

I created a BDC for my network, running a slave LDAP server. Do I need
specify the same workgroup as the PDC in the smb.conf? I was thinking
I'd put it on a different workgroup just for organizational purposes.



The workgroup name serves as the domain name if you are running your samba
servers as domain controlers. A BDC must have the same domain name as the PDC,
so the answer is "no".
Once you start with PDCs and BDCs you must stop thinking of workgroups. You have
a domain.
  

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Re: [Samba] Backup Domain Controller

[Wolfgang Ratzka]

Jason Baker schrieb:

> I created a BDC for my network, running a slave LDAP server. Do I need
> specify the same workgroup as the PDC in the smb.conf? I was thinking
> I'd put it on a different workgroup just for organizational purposes.

The workgroup name serves as the domain name if you are running your samba
servers as domain controlers. A BDC must have the same domain name as the PDC,
so the answer is "no".
Once you start with PDCs and BDCs you must stop thinking of workgroups. You have
a domain.
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[Samba] Backup Domain Controller

[Jason Baker]

I created a BDC for my network, running a slave LDAP server. Do I need 
specify the same workgroup as the PDC in the smb.conf? I was thinking 
I'd put it on a different workgroup just for organizational purposes.

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*Glastender Inc.*
5400 North Michigan Road
Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA
800.748.0423
Phone: 989.752.4275 ext. 228
Fax: 989.752.
www.glastender.com 

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Re: [Samba] samba backup domain controller

[Paul Gienger]

 not possible I would use ldap as the backend, but once again there is 
limited documentation.
Then perhaps you aren't looking in the right place.  Try going to 
www.samba.org and hit any of the links under "Learn Samba" on the left 
side, the first two in particular.  That should be enough doc for most 
systems, and if you run into problems with one of those setups post back 
with a detailed description of the problem

For multiple (server) systems, some sort of network authentication is 
wise, and LDAP is the recent auth of choice for the unix/linux minded so 
I would suggest that.

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[Samba] samba backup domain controller

[adrian sender]

Hey all
I need some help with samba in a samba enviroment as a backup domain 
controller. There seems to be a lack of good documentation.

I would prefer a pure samba envioment using the samba password file and 
rsync, this is the most basic setup but there is no documentation. If not 
possible I would use ldap as the backend, but once again there is limited 
documentation.

Any help wuld be apprectiated.
Email me @ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for your input.
Adrian Sender
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Re: [Samba] backup domain controller

[John H Terpstra]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Andreas Baer wrote:

>
> hi there,
>
> my name is andreas,
> i am working on a company as an administrator for the local network
> which uses win2000-clients and unix/linux-servers in one domain.
>
> at the moment we have only one primary domain controller, which is
> the samba implementation for domain logons. samba works fine and there
> are no problems in it`s use,
> but the problem is that we have a "outpost" of our company in a
> different city. the clients from there are also connected to the
> samba-pdc which is at our location. this brings the need of a instant
> internet connection to send the request for domain logons or for the
> transfer of home directories for example.
>
> now to our problem,
>
> in one short sentence:
> we want to build up one or more backup domain controller for reducing
> traffic and costs for the company.
>
> one location of a bdc would be for example this "outpost".
> to solve this problem without microsoft-licences for use of domain
> controllers, i searched the internet for a solution.
> but it was very hard to find something about samba for use as a backup
> domain controller, because this function isn`t really implemented.
>
> my questions are for now:
>
>- is there a chance to get samba work as a backup domain
>  controller, especially for the problem i write above?

Yes.

>
>- if yes, where can i find some really good explainations and
>  howto`s for the solution of this problem?

http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

Chapters 4 - 8 might help you.

>
>- if no, is there a chance that the next releases of samba will
>  have such an implementation, maybe version 3.x.x or earlier?

Can do with Samba-2.2.8a, even better with Samba-3.0.0 due out soon.

>
>- a little help would be to explain the problem of the backup
>  domain controller in use with samba from the sight of a samba
>  developer

See document referred to.

>
> we really have to find a solution for our company`s network
> thanks for any reply and sorry, but my english is not the best. :)
>

Hope it helps. If not, please do let me know what is missing from this
document so I can improve it.


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[Samba] backup domain controller

[Andreas Baer]

hi there,

my name is andreas,
i am working on a company as an administrator for the local network 
which uses win2000-clients and unix/linux-servers in one domain.

at the moment we have only one primary domain controller, which is
the samba implementation for domain logons. samba works fine and there
are no problems in it`s use,
but the problem is that we have a "outpost" of our company in a 
different city. the clients from there are also connected to the
samba-pdc which is at our location. this brings the need of a instant
internet connection to send the request for domain logons or for the
transfer of home directories for example.

now to our problem,

in one short sentence:
we want to build up one or more backup domain controller for reducing 
traffic and costs for the company.

one location of a bdc would be for example this "outpost".
to solve this problem without microsoft-licences for use of domain
controllers, i searched the internet for a solution.
but it was very hard to find something about samba for use as a backup
domain controller, because this function isn`t really implemented.

my questions are for now:

   - is there a chance to get samba work as a backup domain
 controller, especially for the problem i write above?

   - if yes, where can i find some really good explainations and
 howto`s for the solution of this problem?

   - if no, is there a chance that the next releases of samba will
 have such an implementation, maybe version 3.x.x or earlier?

   - a little help would be to explain the problem of the backup
 domain controller in use with samba from the sight of a samba
 developer

we really have to find a solution for our company`s network
thanks for any reply and sorry, but my english is not the best. :)
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