[K12OSN] What's the differences when you run smbldap pdc and smbldap bdc

[Huck]

I might be speak'n outta my ___ here...but I believe in your swap 
process you can create the samba box as a PDC and then change it to a 
BDC simply by editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf file after you are ready 
to have both a PDC and a BDC on the network..
http://www.faqs.org/docs/samba/ch04.html

that's the samba book from o'reilly online(free) specifically the 
section on PDC and BDC's...just scroll down a bit

--Huck


Brian Chivers wrote:
> As you will have seen from my previous post I'm doing some planning for 
> some server swaps. One of the major ones is replacing our main Samba / 
> Ldap PDC and splitting off the ldap server to a separate box.
> 
> Currently the PDC acts as the master ldap server and replicates this to 
> the other servers & the samba servers on these boxs authenticate against 
> themselves in effect acting as standalone servers and when you run 
> testparm on these box's they report back as "Standalone"
> 
> When we swap things around I'd like to implement BDC's and looking at 
> the doc's for Matt's brilliant installer you just have to run ./smbldap 
> pdc on the pdc to set this up but here's the problem, I need to 
> implement the bdc's before I rebuild the PDC as the box's involved can 
> be swapped out a lot easier then the pdc.
> 
> I can setup the replication from the master to slave LDAP's ok but 
> wondered what else needs to be done on the to setup the BDC's by hand. I 
> did think about simply running ./smbldap bdc on the bdc's but I'm not 
> sure if this would work as it would know about the relevent values or 
> will the brilliant script ask this :-)
> 
> Thanks
> Brian Chivers
> Portsmouth College
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