[Samba] Samba 3 as BDC

[Ronan Waide]

On November 20, abartlet at samba.org said:
> 
> If you want to contribute some doco or simply a discussion of what you
> did and how you did it, it would be most appreciated.

Certainly will do. Once I get it working and all :)
 
> You must use the 'add user' scripts etc - because we don't automatically
> create these users, and we don't allow users without a unix id to be
> represented.  I might add some more LDAP magic toward this, but that's
> how it is for now.  

So basically there is currently no way around the requirement for a
Unix ID and/or group?
 
> You can't demote to BDC - it will try and sync the passwords, and that
> will fail badly.  However, if demoted all the way to domain member, it
> should work.  

Okay. Demonstrating my ignorance, how the hell do I demote it all the
way to a domain member without reinstalling NT?

Cheers,
Waider.
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