Samba PDC/BDC

[Thomas Charron]

On 1/17/06, klussier at comcast.net <klussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
> > Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> > >   Okay, but what does any of that Heimdal/Kerberos stuff have to do
> > > with authenticating NTLM clients?
> > Nothing, but he keeps talking about AD authentication, which Kerberos
> > *would* be a component of if it would work.  And at one point, there
> > was a more generic single-sign on discussion which included this as
> > well, but has since gotten lost in the noise.
> My question was originally "Can I have a Samba server over there act as a
> PDC for them using the same Windows Domain". That question came about
> because it was brought to my attention that there will be traveling between
> here and there quite often, and re-configuring their laptops for a different
> windows domain is a PITA.
> But, for those of you just joining the thread, the answer so far is:
> 1) Yes, you can do that.
> 2) No, you can't do that.
> 3) You might be able to do that, but only if you do something completely
> different then what you originally wanted to do.
>

  You can only do that with samba4, which isn't even alpha code yet.  Only
samba 4 allows you to join an Active Domain as a domain controller.  I was
mistaken in believing that samba 3 could hndle it, as samba 3 can only AUTH
against an Active Directory, but not serve as the domain controller.

  Thomas
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