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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:43:17 +0400
From:      "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To:        "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com>
Cc:        Godfrey <godfreylists@compudoc.za.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd 6.1 Samba 3 as a PDC not using ldap
Message-ID:  <cb5206420606241043i10c88cbby29908a4c0b7d90ed@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <df9ac37c0606240804p5d45b047g5bb29281f14f9148@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <7.0.1.0.0.20060624000904.01e765d8@compudoc.za.org> <cb5206420606232159q52e3864fn3d1c8e711829ab27@mail.gmail.com> <df9ac37c0606240804p5d45b047g5bb29281f14f9148@mail.gmail.com>

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On 6/24/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/23/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/24/06, Godfrey <godfreylists@compudoc.za.org> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I am looking for help with running SAMBA 3 as a PDC on Freebsd 6.1
> >
> > Samba 3 can not run as a PDC, only Samba 4 can do that,
> > but it hasn't been released yet.
>
> Incorrect.
> Samba 3 is perfectly suitable as a NT4 style PDC.
> Unless you meant that it can not run as an Active Directory domain
> controller, which would be correct; but even WinXP Pro is happy as a
> domain member of an NT4 style domain. The only things you don't get
> are enhanced user, machine policy configurations; but even that isn't
> too hard to fake with the WinXP Resource Kit.

Sorry. You're right of course.



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