Hi all, I'm just wondering if it is possible to have Samba-3.x be a backup domain controller for Windows Sever 2003? The samba-3 versions of the docs from their site "Beginning with Version 2.2, Samba officially supports domain logons for all current Windows clients, including Windows NT4, 2003 and XP" and "This means that Samba-3 also cannot act as a Backup Domain Controller to an Active Directory Domain Controller." But can it be a bdc to a 2003 bdc (no ad?) Thanks Hans
No. It can only be a BDC to a Samba PDC. -- Simon Oliver
-----Original Message----- From: Hans du Plooy [mailto:hansdp@newingtoncs.co.za] Sent: 04 May 2004 13:23 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Samba as BDC for Win2k3?
Hi all,
I'm just wondering if it is possible to have Samba-3.x be a backup domain controller for Windows Sever 2003?
The samba-3 versions of the docs from their site
"Beginning with Version 2.2, Samba officially supports domain logons for all current Windows clients, including Windows NT4, 2003 and XP"
and
"This means that Samba-3 also cannot act as a Backup Domain Controller to an Active Directory Domain Controller."
But can it be a bdc to a 2003 bdc (no ad?)
Thanks Hans
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On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:38, Simon Oliver wrote:
No. It can only be a BDC to a Samba PDC.
Thanks Simon, confirming my suspicions. Just so I can explain to my boss ('n MS professional) - what is the Samba shortcoming that prevents this? Thank you Hans
Thanks Simon, confirming my suspicions. Just so I can explain to my boss ('n MS professional) - what is the Samba shortcoming that prevents this?
Thank you
As Ben said it is all to do with the replication protocols that Microsoft use. The Smaba team just haven't had to time to work them all out yet. And it's not in 3.0.3 either. Quoting from the Samba man pages http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/howto/ Samba-3 can not participate in true SAM replication and is therefore not able to employ precisely the same protocols used by MS Windows NT4. A Samba-3 BDC will not create SAM update delta files. It will not inter-operate with a PDC (NT4 or Samba) to synchronize the SAM from delta files that are held by BDCs. Samba-3 cannot function as a BDC to an MS Windows NT4 PDC, and Samba-3 can not function correctly as a PDC to an MS Windows NT4 BDC. Both Samba-3 and MS Windows NT4 can function as a BDC to its own type of PDC. -- Simon Oliver
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 16:43, Simon Oliver wrote:
As Ben said it is all to do with the replication protocols that Microsoft use. The Smaba team just haven't had to time to work them all out yet. And it's not in 3.0.3 either.
Thanks all who replied. Gonna have to put another windows box in, like it or not :-(( Thanks again -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 03:28, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 16:43, Simon Oliver wrote:
As Ben said it is all to do with the replication protocols that Microsoft use. The Smaba team just haven't had to time to work them all out yet. And it's not in 3.0.3 either.
Thanks all who replied. Gonna have to put another windows box in, like it or not :-((
Proprietary protocols, don't you just *love* them! Matt
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