On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 12:06 +0100, steve wrote: > Hi > I have the opportunity to test Samba 4 and in particular the possibility > of migrating from 3.6 to 4. I have a setup a spare box with 3.6 and ldap > running under openSUSE 12.1 with a win 7 client on virtualbox. > I had not used windows for over 10 years until I set up our SSO lan last > month so I don't know much about AD. I read in the Samba 4 docs that you > can drag and drop machines and users onto the AD. > 1. Can I run Samba 4 alongside Samba 3 on my test box? Maybe, I don't know. It is certainly much easier to use virtual machines and run them separately. > 2. Can I migrate users and machines (in my case a few test users and one > w7 virtual machine) from Samba 3 to Samba 4? Is there a script? Yes, samba4 provides samba-tool which has a domain upgrade tool. samba-tool domain samba3upgrade > 3. For the 'drag-and-drop-users. . .' bit, will I need a GUI on my > openSUSE host? No, you can to quite a bit via net / samba-tool. And there is [although I've never used it] a Python API. Otherwise you use the MSC on a Windows box. > 4. Will I need to administrate Samba 4 from windows? It is helpful. > 5. Can anyone give me a one liner which starts with 'AD is. . .' No, and anyone who says they can is full-of-crap and doesn't know what they are talking about. > 6. Is my setup OK for testing this? Do I need a separate physical > windows client to test it? You can test from a virtual machine. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba