SBS2003 to Samba4 migration

[Daniele Dario]

Ops,
my mistake.

Looking in the smb.conf of the samba3 file server I had to add the
second DC name in the password server.
Adding that entry all works.
Good job guys.

Anyway, the join to a domain as DC command, does not create any entry
for the dns stuff (I mean the files used for ddns updates).
Now, if I have to move bind from slave to master in order to remove the
sbs server what am I supposed to do? Should I edit the named.conf files
and the zones? And about TSIG and gensec stuff?

Thanks in advance,
Daniele.

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 13:57 +0200, Daniele Dario wrote:
> Hi samba team,
> in my company we have a SBS2003 DC which actually acts both as AC DC and
> mail server.
> Currently we are moving the mail server out of the company and next I
> would remove the SBS server and use samba4 as DC.
> 
> In our topology we also have a samba3 server joined to our sbs domain
> which acts as file server.
> 
> I tried setting up a samba4 (samba version 4.0.0alpha17-GIT-ccaab14)
> server. I joined the server to the sbs2003 domain and all went ok
> (quick-test OK, samba-tool domain join OK, samba-tool drs kcc and
> showrepl OK) but if I shut down the sbs server, no user can login to the
> samba3 file server.
> 
> The idea was to join samba4 to sbs2003 than remove the sbs2003 DC (I'm
> not a skilled IT manager so maybe it is not a good idea). Is it wrong?
> 
> Basically I would do this staff without changing anything on the
> client's side. Is it possible or do I have to provision a new domain and
> than create users and groups than join the clients (winxp/vista/7) to
> the newly created domain?
> 
> As a second step I would use the hw of the sbs server for the file
> server.
> Would it be best to set it up with samba4 (so it can also be a secondary
> DC) or is it best to keep it with samba3?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniele.
> 
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