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

[Brian Chivers]

Well looking at that it's only one line that is different

PDC
domain master = yes

BDC
domain master = no

Brian

Huck wrote:
> 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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