[Samba] Re: How to migrate a complex NT4 network

[John H Terpstra]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Raphaël Berghmans wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:55, John H Terpstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Raphaël Berghmans wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > We have on a central site a NT4 PDC and a NT4 BDC and on 6 secondary
> > > sites we have a BDC on each site (the authentication for the
> > > workstations on those remotes sites occurs on the local BDC and not on
> > > PDC).
> > >
> > > Which could be the best way to migrate this environment to a
> > > SAMBA-3.0.0/LDAP environment. But we cannot intervene on each 1600
> > > workstations. Then the migration has to be the most transparently as
> > > possible for the users.
> >
> > Your configuration is typical of many. The samba-3 migration facility (net
> > rpc vampire) should work fine. You should be able to run it against the
> > local BDC - though I have not tested that.
>
> Indeed the SAM migration is very simple with vampire. But Samba cannot
> made realtime synchronization with a NT4 PDC and how to manage the
> modifications. Made a vampire each time a modification has been done on
> the PDC is a little bit tricky (with 1600 users, 500 groups and 1700
> machines).

We have documented the fact that Samba-3 can not be a BDC to an NT4 PDC.
Sorry. If yu want to use Samba as a BDC then your PDC must be Samba also.

- John T.

> >
> > If you need help just ask. I am writing a follow up book to the
> > Samba-HOWTO-Collection (The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide)
> > called "Samba-3 by Example" and will have a chapter in there that will
> > provide detailed presecriptive guidance on the migration process.
> >
> > If you like we could use your migration opportunity as the basis for the
> > case study in the book.
> >
> > - John T.
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org