Hy !
I` am thinking of setting up a PDC for 200 Clients!

1. Is this the right Hardware ?
2 x HP ProLiant DL320R02 P4 2,26GHz 128MB
Intel Pentium 4 Prozessor 2,26GHz
128MB Memory PC2100 ECC-DDR SDRAM (max. 4GB)
2xNC7760 Gigabit NIC embedded PCI 10/100/1000 WOL
integr. Ultra ATA/100 Controller
2. I think i can set up the 2 PCs the same way but is there any Software that can manage that if the primary is not working the other maschine will take over the PDC service.
3. Is there a software that can sync the two pcs (nothing like wget!)

Thanks for the help!

Download samba 2.2.7.a, it has docs in the tree under docs/htmldocs/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html and Samba-BDC-HOWTO.html that explain how to set up your particular config although true Windows PDC/BDC capability doesn't sound like its implimented yet they do mention how to do a makeshift setup if both machines are running Samba.

The reason I mention PDC/BDC is that you want to set up two boxes, if they were windows machines you would set them up as a PDC (Primary Domain Controller) and a BDC (Backup Domain Controller) and both would work fine with either acting as the domain controller if the other was offline, complete with user/password sync and browse list sync (as WINS servers). Your goal seems to be to get the same effect with Samba servers, which doesn't appear to be fully implimented in the Samba code yet but the above docs seem to explain enough to get a reasonable facsimile and they do say they are working on it, maybe it's in a beta samba package?

That was a good idea, i will try that !
thanks so far!

What about the hardware ? Anyone any experience ?