[Samba] problem switching PDC from NT4 to Samba

[Gerald Drouillard]

There is some software that claims to downgrade/upgrade NT server without
reinstalling NT.  Unfortunately the link to the vendor is on my work
computer.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Martyn Ranyard
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:13 PM
> To: Bryan Fetzer; Albrecht Dreß; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] problem switching PDC from NT4 to Samba
>
>
> But in this case, surely that isn't an option.
>
> If I am wrong correct me, but isn't it impossible to have an M$ BDC to a
> Samba PDC
>
> Martyn
>
> At 09:02 AM 2/7/02 -0800, Bryan Fetzer wrote:
> >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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