Hi, AFAIK, BDC is a term taken from the NT4 world. Since Windows2k there are no more PDC and BDC, only DC. So, all DCs in your domain should contain the same data and do the same work. This should give you HA as well as load-balancing.
Anyhow, I'm not a windows guru, so you might want to ignore my last statement and seek for a better advice :) - Noam On 6/26/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, I kept hearing that Samba 3 can join and do anything as a Windows Domain Controller even better than Windows itself. But now that I need it to replace a Backup Domain Controller (fka Secondary Domain Controller?) to a Windows 2003 Active Directory server I keep bumping into the following worrying FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/yrnhv7 <quote> Can Samba Be a Backup Domain Controller to an NT4 PDC? No. The native NT4 SAM replication protocols have not yet been fully implemented. Can I get the benefits of a BDC with Samba? Yes, but only to a Samba PDC.The main reason for implementing a BDC is availability. If the PDC is a Samba machine, a second Samba machine can be set up to service logon requests whenever the PDC is down. </quote> And I'm not sure how relevant this is for my situation - is Windows 2003 considered "NT4 PDC" or is it something newer that Samba can cooperate with as a BDC? Also the Samba online documents seem to come up with lots of stuff about 2.2, if Samba 3 CAN be a BDC for Windows 2003 and there is a good document on how to do this then I'd appreciate very much a direct pointer to such docs. I have the Samba HOWTO printed book from around 2.5 years ago but I'm not sure how relevant this is for today. Thanks, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
