I give up

[Larry Clark]

Kat wrote:
and I questioned:
Kat, I am getting ready to dp this:

I have an existing PDC using NT. I want to replace it with SAMBA, which
will get rid of a small, but significant licensing issue. any
suggestions before I attempt this on my own? thanks. such as point all
other server to it as passwd server. and will all other servers go to it
for authentication? thanks.

any suggestions before I dive in head first?
thanks.

> 
> Hmm, on my first try I removed Windows NT and 2000 Domain controllers,
> replaced with Samba 2.2, added all win2K and NT and 98 clients. Profiles
> worked beautifully. Printing works better and faster than before. (I use
> CUPs)
> 
> I am using 2.2 as DC's and on all the other file servers, running 2.07
> which works like a champ.  Using with reiserFS/striped file systems and
> the speed is wonderful for my users.  They asked after the conversion
> if we bought new 'super servers'.  Funny thing is the new file servers
> have P2's and the only windows 2K boxes have P3's.  The P3's are being
> converted to user desktops.
> 
> I guess I can understand frustration levels, as I have felt it before,
> but "giving up" should never be an option.  Unless someone says flat
> out that what you want to do can't be done.
> 
> I have now converted 3 companies (largest has 75 users) to running a 100%
> samba/linux environment.  CLients of course are W2K and NT.. The love
> the speed and the systems have been rock solid with no lockups or any
> problems, unlike W2K advanced server which locked up 3 times in the
> first week they went to it.
> 
> Either do, or do not, there is no try. To 'try' assumes failure...
> 
> Cheers
> Kathee
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Morris Maynard
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:34 AM
> To: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
> Subject: I give up
> 
> How much is your time worth? I know I could have bought all of my customers
> a copy of Windows 2000 Server and set it up for them in the time I have
> wasted playing around with Samba 2.2.
> 
> After a whole lot of trying this and trying that (the this's and that's from
> HOW-TO, FAQ, newsgroup postings) I finally succeeded in getting a Win2K box
> to join the Samba PDC's domain. But of course I couldn't print. The previous
> printer definitions in smb.conf didn't work anymore: there was always an
> error when trying to connect from the Win2k client to the printer on the
> PDC. And when I started trying to implement printers via the [Printers]
> share, nothing would work until I uploaded the proper driver - and that
> operation failed for some mysterious reason ("Access denied") after all of
> the files had been copied to the proper place (via the Add Printer wizard).
> 
> The last straw was when my local logon profiles "disappeared" - if I logged
> on as anyone other than "root" to my Win2k client, I had no roaming profile
> and I had no local profile - I was a ghost.
> 
> No thanks. I went back to 2.0.7 just to be able to get some work done. Next
> week, I get a new hard drive and start to leave Linux behind.