Re: [Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-12 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
Windows clients will give preference to a BDC (if available) when selecting a logon server over a PDC. On 12/08/2011 08:36 AM, Aaron E. wrote: I have a s3.4 pdc with a bdc,, pdc is serving around 80 users on terminal services and another 50 fat clients,,, acts as the file server.. roaming

Re: [Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-08 Thread steve
On 08/12/11 00:03, John Heim wrote: How much of a resource hog is a PDC? My understanding is that authentication is done vs a BDC if available. I configured my new file server as the domain PDC because I figured it would already have to run samba. I have two other machines configured as BDCs to

Re: [Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 17:03 -0600, John Heim wrote: How much of a resource hog is a PDC? My understanding is that authentication is done vs a BDC if available. I configured my new file server as the domain PDC because I figured it would already have to run samba. I have two other machines

Re: [Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-08 Thread steve
On 08/12/11 12:15, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 17:03 -0600, John Heim wrote: How much of a resource hog is a PDC? My understanding is that authentication is done vs a BDC if available. I configured my new file server as the domain PDC because I figured it would already have

Re: [Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-08 Thread Aaron E.
I have a s3.4 pdc with a bdc,, pdc is serving around 80 users on terminal services and another 50 fat clients,,, acts as the file server.. roaming profiles etc... I have no issues other than the network card only being 100mb,, I do have a throughput issues.. but that is on the table.. On

Re: [Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 08:36 -0500, Aaron E. wrote: I have a s3.4 pdc with a bdc,, pdc is serving around 80 users on terminal services and another 50 fat clients,,, acts as the file server.. roaming profiles etc... I have no issues other than the network card only being 100mb,, I do have a

Re: [Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-08 Thread John Heim
From: Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org With Samba3 domain control there isn't really a BDC/PDC distinction. Every box is a PDC that operates in parallel with the other DCs. That is a bit different than a true NT4 domain. But one machine has to have the master copy of the

[Samba] PDC file server on same machine?

2011-12-07 Thread John Heim
How much of a resource hog is a PDC? My understanding is that authentication is done vs a BDC if available. I configured my new file server as the domain PDC because I figured it would already have to run samba. I have two other machines configured as BDCs to serve as logon servers. I'm