Linux BDC for NT PDC

dcs · 08-26-2009, 04:28 PM

Hello Everyone,

Here's my scenario, im am a member of network administrator group of our corporate and we are slowly migrating our servers to linux.

We are planing to have a backup DC for our NT domain. However at the moment we are not able to completely remove our NT PDC.

I have read articles about samba and it says it will not function with a NT PDC.

is there any method in linux that i can accomplish these goals ?

EricTRA · 08-28-2009, 01:16 AM

Hello and Welcome to LQ,

You're in for a challenge if you want a mixed environment

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Read this chapter at Samba.org.

Somewhere down it states:

Quote:

SAM replication with Windows NT4 domain controllers (i.e., a Samba PDC and a Windows NT BDC, or vice versa). This means Samba cannot operate as a BDC when the PDC is Microsoft-based Windows NT PDC. Samba-3 can not participate in replication of account data to Windows PDCs and BDCs.

So, if you cannot replicate the account data of your users to a BDC, then you have no fallback, hence no BDC.

You're faced with some decision making in my opinion.

Kind regards,

Eric

dcs · 08-28-2009, 03:46 AM

thanks EricTRA for your reply.

I have already read the documentation. I will wait a wile and change afterwords i think.

okcomputer44 · 08-28-2009, 05:40 PM

Hi,

Take a look these links:

http://www.linuxmail.info/category/active-directory/

http://www.linuxmail.info/category/samba/

Laz