[Samba] NT Domain to Samba-LDAP just disabling netlogon on NT PDC?

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:27 +0100, Paul Coray wrote:
> Hi group
> 
> Quick question before I switch my domain from NT4 PDC to Samba-LDAP:
> Can I leave the old NT-PDC in my subnet, if I just disable it's netlogon 
> service?
> 
> Reason: This old NT-Server has a database running which is still needed 
> after the migration to samba, but it doesn't need to have any 
> NETBIOS-NTDomain functionality after the switch, just TCP-IP.
> 
> I know of third-party tools like UPromote, but if I can avoid them, I 
> think this is a much easier and transparent way of doing it.
> 
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won't work for password changes, new users, all changes made to domain
after the NT4 server has been 'dumbed' down since it only considers it's
own SAM

Craig