Re: [squid-users] Backup Domain Controllers for NTLMv2 Auth

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:13:26 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Ian Barnes wrote:

> I am busy setting up a squid cluster using NTLMv2 to authenticate users.
> My main concern now is how I could setup a backup Domain Controller
> server to connect to if the main Domain Controller couldn't be reached.
> So it's basically a backup DC that will only be used should the main one
> be unreachable.

Most people just stick to the normal PDC/BDC relations of Windows
networking, which is also well understood by Samba winbindd automatically
selecting the a proper DC for the request.

In Samba, just don't specify a password server and it will select one of
the working ones automatically.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Oct 20 2005 - 12:13:28 MDT

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