Topic: Samba backup domain controller between two separate SME SVRS

[xionofchaos]

I've been doing research on how to do this, but I need some help.  I have an SME 6.01-1 PDC in an office, but I want to have a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) "offsite".

How do I set this up using SME?

[brianr]

I've also been thinking about this.  I thought perhaps i could use rsync, but haven't done anything else on it.

[jester]

I've posted a similar request for this kinda functionality to be build into SME7:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30109.0

But.... ofcourse this is subject to the developers-team time and if they think this functionality should be part of the core.

[xionofchaos]

I've posted a similar request for this kinda functionality to be build into SME7:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30109.0

But.... ofcourse this is subject to the developers-team time and if they think this functionality should be part of the core.

I absolutely agree that it is a needed function.  From what I can gather from the following articles I think samba 3.0 does have domain trust relationship abilities.  However I am unsure of how to migrate the user data across from one server from the other.  I've currently got Rsync working perfectly via ssh between the remote site and the primary site.

http://tr.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/InterdomainTrusts.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/B8725-90093/ch04s11.html

[Franco]

Then you're looking at trust relationships between domains, and not PDC and BDC.
How about NIS and Rsync?
http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_30.htm

[xionofchaos]

The idea of the BDC will be so users can have the option to logon to the remote domain controller in the case of failure with the PDC.   I don't think I'll be able to do that with a simple VPN connection.  No I definetly need either a backup domain controller OR a separate domain controller with a trust relationship with the PDC (or vice versa).

As far as synchronizing user data goes I have a cron job have the remote server run rsync evey 2 hours via ssh.  This seems to work fine though the ADSL at the primary site kinda bogs down due to bandwidth issues.

What I need is a how to on either creating a remote backup domain controller or how to create the trust relationship so that users of the PDC can logon to the remote domain controller when needed.

Anyone got any ideas on how I go about this on sme 6.01?