[plug] Samba as NT PDC

[James Bromberger]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:31:00PM +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone can offer the commercial service of replacing an NT4
> PDC with an appropriate Linux/Samba (or alternative) back-end ?
> I want to get someone's server off NT but not let the users (Win95
> workstation) see any difference.

I know Richard Shape is on the list, and as he is a member of the 
Samba team, he is in a much better position to comment on this, however 
my two cents: I have had it set up as a PDC with a Win2K client, domain 
trust accounts for the workstation and useraccount for myself, and 
it worked. I didnt implment a roaming profile or do much with it, since 
I ran into major headaches with the PAM support (see lists.samba.org 
and the samba-technical archives for April/May).

I think that with the changes going on there, you would want to consider 
holding off on using 2.2 as a PDC for the moment, possibly until the next 
release. Again, Richard will be able to comment more on this. As far as 
Win98/95 clients, I think it works just as well as 2.0.x, which I have had 
doing roaming profiles with for about a year and a half... everything one 
needs is in the documentation.

I spoke briefly to James tonight about this at the meeting; I can't 
wait until I can get this deployed with Win2K clients and have roaming 
profiles *and* single sign on for everything (one password). With Win9x 
roaming profiles passwords are stored on each machine separately.
 
  James
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