Re: Has anyone successfully migrated off and NT Domain Server to aLinux based server with SAMBA?

[Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>]

Tim,

I have been able to make samba play nicely as a PDC back in the days of
Red Hat Linux 6.2+updates, but it required a lot of hackery in order to 
get it "right". iirc, I had to create accounts for machines in order to 
allow the machines to log on to the domain.

As I said, this was a long long time ago and I understand that doing
this has become significantly easier, but I don't know how much so.

Best of luck.

Matt Galgoci

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 15:12, Edward C. Bailey wrote:
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Hurdle <tim.hurdle@home.com> writes:
> 
> Tim> Has anyone successfully migrated off and NT Domain Server to a Linux
> Tim> based server with SAMBA?
> 
> Tim> I've heard the latest version of SAMBA should support this for Primary
> Tim> Domain Control (albeit not Backup Domain Control) and would like to
> Tim> know if anyone has successfully done this.  If so, what
> Tim> tips/tricks/gotcha's/etc should I be aware of?  Thanks in advance,
> 
> I personally have not done this (setting up simple shares for my wife's NT
> box being about as far as I've gone), but I did notice that my 7.2 box has
> the following documents in /usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.1a/docs/htmldocs:
> 
>                            Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html
>                             samba-pdc-faq.html
>                            samba-pdc-howto.html
> 
> Looks like they're chock full of tips/tricks/gotchas... :-)
> 
> Please, let us know how you make out -- this is one aspect of Samba that
> I've not had any real exposure to, and I for one am interesting in learning
> more about it...