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[Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > I need to setup a PDC on Samba 3. To achieve this I followed the steps
> > described on the Samba docs and on some other websites I found after
> > googling for a while. From the Samba side everything seems to be OK:
> Sorry to touch basics but ....
> Is your record of the form?
> _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.mydomain.com IN SRV 0 100 389 <PDC server>.mydomain.com
> and port 389 is open on server 
> It was a long time ago I set this up... but I do vaguely remember something 
> anout DOMAIN names, and PDC names needing to map onto DNS server names and z
> one names, but my memory may be playing tricks :-)

These DNS entries are not required for an NT4 domain,  which is what a
Samba 3.x PDC hosts/creates.  These entries are used [primarily] by an
AD (Windows 2003) domain.  The absence of these entries will not prevent
clients from joining the Samba 3 domain.

http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html

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