[BUGS] Samba as "domain controller"

[Brad Rushworth]

I'm also interested in how well Samba 3 can act as a PDC.

I used to have a Samba domain controller for Windows 98 workstations a 
few years back and that worked fine for a reasonable number of clients.

Having Windows XP machines though is completely different, but my 
understanding is that with the recent Samba 3 versions support is pretty 
good and definitely workable (although not 100%).

I will be configuring a Samba 3 PDC in the coming weeks so I would also 
like to hear other people's more informed opinions.

Brad



Wang, Tong (FN,IE) @ Nautronix wrote on 1/07/2008 4:32 PM:
> Hi Jerahmy
> 
> I've got it going on FreeBSD6.2 RELEASE. From memory it wasn't too 
> complicated, I got most of my infomation on 
> http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html 
> which is very good to get you started. Below are some of the good sites 
> I found:
> 
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/
> http://www.oregontechsupport.com/samba/?cat=10&paged=2
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch04.html
> 
> The samba version I configured was 3.0.25a, there were a few functions 
> that couldn't be implemented at the time from samba compared to an 
> actual Windows PDC, not sure if there's any improvements with the 
> current stable version (3.0.30). In general it can act as a PDC to 
> perform domain control, roaming profile etc, can't say too much about 
> reliability, I only configured on a test network and had it running for 
> a very short period of time.
> 
> Hope this helps, would be interesting to see anyone else's opnion who's 
> doing this in a production environment.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tong
> 
> Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
>> Heyas,
>>
>> I'v seen this done before.. In fact I saw it working like 10 years  
>> ago, so it has to be even better now..
>>
>> But has anyone here had experience with using bsd with samba to  
>> authenticate windows workstation users? What they call a "domain  
>> controller".. How difficult is it to make work and is there anything  
>> much that can't be done?
>>
>> I'm not looking for specifics, just general feelings on the subject =)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jerahmy.
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