[Samba] Migration issue

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 03:32, Chris Ditri wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> My samba has been running so flawlessly, I don't think I have posted here in 
> about 2 years!
> 
> But, the time has come to move our windows domain from NT 4 to windows 2000.  
> 
> Currently, we run samba 2.0.7 on an old RH 6.2 box which hands off all 
> authentication to the NT4 pdc (we have no bdc currently).  I would like to 
> keep this same style of authentication -- where the samba box passes it off 
> to a windows2k server.  We will be buying a new box to run our new samba file 
> server on.  I plan to run the most current version of samba there.
> 
> I want to minimize downtime during this migration, so I am looking for the 
> best strategy to do this.
> 
> Can samba 2.0.7 authenticate against a windows 2000 active directory server?  
> If it can, then I can build the new machine, and get it ready while users can 
> still use the old system.  If it can't... then I am a little stuck.

There are a few things to look out for:

If you use 'security=server', there could be issues.  (win2k does weird
connection-reset stuff that can make it miserable on very high-load
systems)

As you are not yet running winbind, the native-mode issues that users in
Samba 2.2 based setups have won't bother you.

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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