31 Aug
2010
31 Aug
'10
11:57 a.m.
On 31 August 2010 11:28, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
On 24/08/10 01:13, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
From the client side I can't really see what you could gain, apart from being able to log into your Linux box with domain credentials
That's pretty much what I thought, and actually having at least one machine that would keep going "if" the DC fails in some way would be no bad thing!
Windows clients of a domain, by default, cache the user's details on their first login. The user's subsequent logins on that client will succeed even if the DC is unavailable - very important for mobile laptop users! I've no idea if Samba and PAM domain clients offer this feature.
Good luck! Tim.