Write down the "migration document"

[Simo Sorce]

If you're not in hurry wait for samba 3.0, otherwise you may use pwdum
plus the utility richard sharpe has just released to change the SID in
the profiles to have a smoother transition.

Btw you cannot yet move only the PDC or the BDC to samba, it is an all
or nothing situation

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 18:10, Tommaso Di Donato wrote:
> Hi to all!
> First, thank you very muche to all af you for your work...
> Now, let's talk about serious things...   ;)
> I'm working for migrate my Microsoft NT4 PDC (and possibly also the BDC) to 
> a Samba server.. In the past I did a lot of tests, using stable versions... 
> It worked perfectly for network in which clients were Win98 only! But if I 
> want to migrate win2k clients, things are not so easy... I would like to 
> make everything as transparent as possible for the clients (my lan at work 
> is about 100 win2k...I can't change them one by one by hand...)
> So, now I downloaded samba3.0alpha20, and I prepared a small LAN to test 
> the things out... If I can do the trick, I would like to write down a small 
> paper ("how I did it", directly from "Frankenstein Jr").. Can someone help me?
> For SAmba 2.2.x I used pwdump to extract user and machine accounts, pstools 
> to grab domain sid, etc. But when I log on a Win2K, I can't use my old 
> profile (because of RID, I think).
> Lurking and asking, I discovered that there is a command, net rpc vampire, 
> that should extract all the infos from the old PDC. Is it right?
> If so, what are the steps? I can't find the sintax for the command in man 
> pages...
> thank you very much, to all of you.
> Bye
> 
> Tommaso Di Donato
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