From: Rob Townley on
Please elaborate on why you do not like OpenLDAP and SambaPDC same machine?

RedHat sponsored FreeIPA.org does Samba, 389 ldap, Dns, pki all on one
machine. So does win ads.

On 7/31/10, John Drescher <drescherjm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>     I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
>> considering below setups.
>>
>> 1) Samba PDC
>> 2) OpenLDAP
>> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
>>
>>     I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me?
>
> All are valid. I mean when setting up a samba domain with open ldap
> you should have at least 1 machine that is a PDC and at least 1
> machine that has openldap on it. Unless this is a home install I
> believe you should have at least 2 of each. The choice of how to
> combine these services is up to the user. For my department (of less
> than 50 users but 30TB of raid on a 100% gigabit network) I have 3 DCs
> and 3 openldap servers. At the moment they are PDC + Openldap. Also
> since I have no user shares on the domain controllers (all data is on
> dual / quad core domain member servers) I have these as guests under a
> vps (openvz or lxc).
>
> John
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From: Gaiseric Vandal on
I would suggest that putting the PDC and LDAP server on the same machine
does make sense, since they are (from the point of view of windows clients)
so closely integrated. It is correctly that if you have the both services
on the same machine, then if that machine goes down you lose both
functionality. However, if the PDC and LDAP server are on separate
machines, if the LDAP server goes down your PDC server is effectively
disabled anyway.

If you want redundancy I suggest configuring two machines- each machine is
an LDAP server (with replication enabled) and each machine is a samba domain
controller (1 PDC and 1 or more BDC's.)



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On Behalf Of Rob Townley
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 7:26 PM
To: John Drescher
Cc: samba(a)lists.samba.org; masatheesh
Subject: Re: [Samba] Need suggestion for domain controller

Please elaborate on why you do not like OpenLDAP and SambaPDC same machine?

RedHat sponsored FreeIPA.org does Samba, 389 ldap, Dns, pki all on one
machine. So does win ads.

On 7/31/10, John Drescher <drescherjm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>     I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
>> considering below setups.
>>
>> 1) Samba PDC
>> 2) OpenLDAP
>> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
>>
>>     I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me?
>
> All are valid. I mean when setting up a samba domain with open ldap
> you should have at least 1 machine that is a PDC and at least 1
> machine that has openldap on it. Unless this is a home install I
> believe you should have at least 2 of each. The choice of how to
> combine these services is up to the user. For my department (of less
> than 50 users but 30TB of raid on a 100% gigabit network) I have 3 DCs
> and 3 openldap servers. At the moment they are PDC + Openldap. Also
> since I have no user shares on the domain controllers (all data is on
> dual / quad core domain member servers) I have these as guests under a
> vps (openvz or lxc).
>
> John
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From: Jack Downes on
The quick solution here is to head over to turnkeylinux.org and use
their prebuilt setup to handle this. I've not used it (yet), but if
it's as good as their other stuff, it's probably quite nice.

Jack

On 07/31/10 07:34 AM, masatheesh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
> considering below setups.
>
> 1) Samba PDC
> 2) OpenLDAP
> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
>
> I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me?
>

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From: Daniel Müller on
Why don' t try samba4:
My thread on this list: HOWTO samba4 centos5.5 named dnsupdate drbd simple
failover

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Betreff: Re: [Samba] Need suggestion for domain controller

The quick solution here is to head over to turnkeylinux.org and use
their prebuilt setup to handle this. I've not used it (yet), but if
it's as good as their other stuff, it's probably quite nice.

Jack

On 07/31/10 07:34 AM, masatheesh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
> considering below setups.
>
> 1) Samba PDC
> 2) OpenLDAP
> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
>
> I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest
me?
>

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