David is the co-author of Oreilly book "Using Samba". More to come... Cheers, Nadeem David Collier-Brown wrote:
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
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Bruce wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to run multiple versions of the smbd daemon (samba/smb) to support multiple Windoze WORKGROUPS from the one machine?
It's barely possible, by running two separate sambas. Another commentator tried it, and had the expected severe but non-fatal difficulties(;-))
The reason is that we have two workgroups - ADMIN and RIFRAF and I need to be able to serve resources to both, ideally from the one machine.
It's a lot easier to tell all your user that there is a new workgroup, possibly named after the whole company or division, and two servers named ADMIN and RIFRAF. Those servers would have all the shares that used to live on multiple servers in those workgroups.
This is fully supported by Samba.
[A note to the list: in most printing of Using Samba, I had smbd supporting multiple workgroups. This was an error, due to my klutzing the test! It's fixed in later versions, which aren't as misleading.]
Migration to a single-server, single workgroup configuration is particularly easy: make the old server's share read-only, copy it to a r/o share on the new server, and then change that to r/w. You can do much of this during working hours, with adequate notice, except for people's home directories. And even them, if your users are kind (;-))
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