[Samba] Migrating from samba to win 2k3 pdc

[Jonathan Johnson]

I've used Microsoft's Active Directory Migration Tool with reasonably 
good success to migrate user and machine accounts from Samba to ADS. 
ADMT is able to retrieve the passwords from a Windows NT domain, but to 
my knowledge, NOT from a Samba domain. ADMT is on your Windows 2K3 CD.

Some gotchas with regard to migration of workstations:

1) The local Administrator password on the workstations (and the 
Administrator password on the old domain) MUST be the same as the 
Administrator password on the new domain

2) Do not have users logged into the computer when migrating workstations

3) On the workstation, make sure there is no "DNS Suffix" specified

4) There is something else but I can't remember it off the top of my 
head. Search the archives -- I've posted on this before.

--Jonathan Johnson


Ross McInnes wrote:

>Yes I know it's a bad thing, but due to several issues I am moving from a
>samba pdc to a windows 2k3 pdc
>
>But, im keeping samba as the file store, ive sorted it so that samba will
>talk to the w2k3 pdc and auth using winbindd etc that's nps.
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>But, I need to get the users and passwords off the linux/samba server and
>onto the w2k3 server...
>
>Any ideas? Password crackers/hax methods accepted!
>
>Either that or it's a reset over 2000 users passwords job (my poor fingers)
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>Many thanks
>
>Ross
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