Transferring PDC duties to Samba

[Tim Allen]

Hi

I have a Samba 2.2.2 server running under RH7.1 in a small network with an
NT4 PDC and a few NT4/Win2000 workstations. I'd like to pension off the NT4
server and configure the Samba box as a PDC. I've been working through the
latest PDC howto and have managed to remove a test workstation from the NT4
domain and join the Samba domain.

Given that we're using only local user profiles, is it possible to somehow
carry over each machine's local profiles. At the moment, when the new domain
is joined, a new profile is created, meaning that everyone's settings are
lost on each machine. Ideally, what I'd like to do is tell the workstations
that the new PDC is the Samba box and keep everything else as is, accepting
that the shares will need changing. Is this possible? One avenue I was
exploring is using pwdump to extract the machine accounts from the NT4 PDC,
then inserting them into smbpasswd (with the necessary changes to
/etc/passwd and etc/shadow). However, this didn't work (server netbios names
in hash?). Can anyone advise a way forward on this?

Thanks

Tim Allen