[Samba] Large (3000+ users) NT to Samba migration

Mikko Rautiainen mrautia6 at welho.com
Tue Feb 25 08:17:43 GMT 2003


David Wilson wrote:

>Hi guys and girls,
>
>A client of mine is seriously investigating migrating their 7 NT servers and
>3000+ users to Linux running Samba.
>I've read one or two documents so far about the migration, but I'm still a
>little unclear about a number of things.
>
>When you have a chance I'd really appreciate your guidance on the following
>items.
>1.) LDAP, /etc/passwd or MySQL backend (if supported).
>2.) User/machine account migration utilities.
>3.) Front-ends for adding user/machine accounts.
>4.) Configuration of BDC(s).
>
>Or any links to the information would be great.
>
>Many thanks and kind regards.
>
>David Wilson
>DcData/LinuxBox S.A.
>+27 83 787 7424
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>http://www.dcdata.co.za
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>
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>
>  
>
Hi,

Here are two things that came to my mind.

1. Are they migrating all computers (workstations and servers) to linux.
    If they are migrating all then I am not sure is samba the right choise.
   
2. If I have understood right samba 2.2.x doesn't support BDC's. But the 3.0
    version will support BDC's.


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