[Samba] problem switching PDC from NT4 to Samba

[Bryan Fetzer]

Josh is absolutely correct. NT 4 is not gunna go
anywhere up or down. The only thing you can do is
demote it to a BDC. That's about it, if you want it to
be a member server and dont' want to install, I
suggest backing up, and then using this utility:
http://www.algintech.com/UTools/UPromote.asp
that's about the only thing you can do
--- Josh Konkol <susesambaboy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You can't just simply tell NT to stop being a PDC. 
> The only way to 
> accomplish this would be to re-install NT.  
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> On Thursday 07 February 2002 10:23, Albrecht Dreß
> wrote:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > Please excuse me if this is a really dumb
> question, I am new to this
> > list, and I am usually a pure unix user...
> >
> > I currently have a system with a NT4 SP6 PDC
> server and a Linux samba
> > 2.2.0 (From SuSE 7.2) machine. My idea is to
> "downgrade" the nt box to
> > a simple (not PDC) server, and to use the samba
> machine as PDC. This
> > works great for '98 clients, but I was not able to
> add the NT machine
> > to the "new" pdc. I followed the instructions
> (created a new domain,
> > added a passwd entry and smbpasswd entry for the
> machine), and I was
> > able to change the domain in the NT box (it told
> me that it joined the
> > new domain successfully). However, it does *not*
> ask samba for password
> > authentications, but still keeps its old user data
> base. Is there any
> > "magic" to make NT forget this and ask samba
> instead? Furthermore, I
> > noticed that the machine account's password in
> smbpasswd for NT box was
> > not changed by joining the domain. Is this
> correct?
> >
> > Any help is welcome!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > 	Albrecht.
> 
>
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