"proxy" PDC

[Josef Forman]

Hi,
I have Apache/NTLM module for autentization for our department. Every autentization id routed to the main PDC in our company. Sometime the amount of autentization questions is really huge. So I need something like my private proxy PDC. Every auth. traffic will be directed to the proxy, for the first time the auth.question will be redirected to real PDC and the following auth. question will be terminated in my proxy PDC.

Is it possible?

Any idea?

[xyko_1]

Hi Josef,

I think your question is best suited to a windows forum, but if the answer will be yes I suggest that you look samba 3 running on top of linux as your authentication PDC. Using linux/samba you will not have to pay windows licenses.

Regards,
Xyko

[Josef Forman]

I need Linux solution. It could be Samba 3, but probably with some special configuration.

[xyko_1]

Ok Josef,

but as I told you this is a Linux forum and you need first to know if it's possible to do what you want using windows. If it's possible you have to know how to do the job and then we may try to help you how to do the same thing in linux/samba.

Tell us how you would do what you want using windows and I think that some linux expert will help you with samba.

regards,
Xyko

[Thomas Bianco]

being a windows guy who wanders the unix world, i think your best bet is to create a DC in the same subnet as your Apache server, then lie to the appache server until it believes the new DC is the PDC.

i am not going to pretend i understand the apache module in question, but there are a few things that define a PDC. in NT4, it's nothing but a writable copy of the SAM and a special netbios message.

every DC registers the 0x1c group record (if the domain name is MyDomain then the DC record is "MyDomain \0x1c"), but only the PDC (or PDCEMU in 2k) registers the 0x1b Netbios record. take a look here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314108

linux has lmhosts for local NBT name reso.: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/lmhosts.5.html

assuming your module is using netbios, you'll want to modify your nssswitch.conf file to use files only for netbios (i think it's the WINS entry, not sure) and write a lmhosts file similar to the following

1.1.1.1 myproxydc
1.1.1.1 mydomain#1b
1.1.1.1 mydomain#1c

let us know how it turns out.

[Thomas Bianco]

the posting fairy ate my whitespace, but that was supposed to be 16 spaces, per below:
__________1111111_____
_1234567890123456_____
"MyDomain_______\0x1c"