[K12OSN] two samba servers on one Win2k3 domain without trusts?

[Conrad Lawes]

Here's a thought:

Why not have  your Samba servers participate  as member servers in Active
Directory?
In so doing, you can administer all your Windows and Linux computer and user
accounts using the standard Windows MMC.

You can configure your Samba servers to be ldap/winbind clients
authenticating to AD.
 The beauty of the Linux PAM stack is that you can point it to an AD
authentication source via winbind and/or LDAP.

Why maintain 2  user directories when one will suffice?  Administration is
much easier if you can keep all your computer and user objects in a single
directory.

I assume that you have no plans to get rid of  AD in the near future, if
at  all.

Check out http://sadms.sourceforge.net/  for more information.


On 7/9/07, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to have two samba servers on a win2k3 domain without
> using NT style trusts? Put another way, must one of the Samba servers
> always be a PDC for its own domain and host something like LDAP for
> all other samba servers?
>
> Is there someone out there who REALLY groks SAMBA?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
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Regards,
Conrad Lawes
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