Re: [Samba] AD caching with Samba?

2010-08-26 Thread Ryan Bair
No, this is not possible. Samba3 cannot act domain controller for AD domains, nor can it act as a BDC for NT domains. Samba4, which is currently in alpha, will have the ability to serve as an AD domain controller as well as a read-only domain controller along side Windows servers. Some people are

[Samba] AD caching with Samba?

2010-08-25 Thread Ryan Whelan
I'm not sure this is possible, I'm sort of leaning to the negative, but I thought i would ask anyway. (I am not a windows or domain networking guy) We have a large (and growing) number of windows servers. Many of them are DCs. While I read Samba can't serve as a BDC to a Windows PDC, can it just f