Vampire between Samba PDC and Samba BDC

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:15:42PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 11:59, Claude-Jacques Tronquet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In the past I successfully migrated accounts from a NT4 PDC to a Samba 3 BDC
> > using the net rpc vampire function.
> > 
> > For testing purpose, I'm now trying to migrate accounts from a Samba 3 PDC to a
> > Samba 3 BDC in the same way. But when I run the net rpc function (after
> > successfully joined the domain), I have the following error, which is not very
> > helpful:
> > 
> > > Fetching DOMAIN database
> > > Failed to fetch domain database: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
> > 
> > By the way, is it possible to use vampire between two Samba, or is it only
> > functionnal between NT and Samba?
> 
> No samba does not have the server side functions needed to perform the
> operation, that's also part of the reason samba cannot still be a
> PDC/BDC.

Well... Samba can be a PDC, and it can be a BDC to a Samba PDC.  I think 
it's just that you can't use Windows and Samba together in PDC/BDC pairs.

...or have I missed something?

Chris -)-----

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