[Samba] Re: Migration NT4 domain to Samba/LDAP howto
Veronica Hill
veronica.hill at optusnet.com.au
Wed Oct 18 12:56:30 GMT 2006
On 18 Oct 2006, at 22:28, Paul van Noort wrote:
> Thanks for the help.. I got some reading matter for the upcoming fall
> holiday ;-)
>
> Questions so far that come to mind are:
> My current Windows 2003 server must stay! It is the Application
> server: can
> Samba act as a PDC with this machine in its domain? Or will win2003
> try to
> take over. It is just a member server.. Not a BDC.
It can be a domain member server in a samba domain. Remember that the
samba domain is an NT4 style one
>
> Can i map the current users on my NT domain to LDAP users on my LDAP
> directory. These users have an a-mail account and password in place!
> Will
> this cause headaches?
>
Possibly although this will be quite a project for you. You may not be
able to use the generic smbldap scripts to vampire the users out of
your old NT4 domain. I would suggest taking a copy of your ldap
databases and then running a vampire to a brand new server with it
being set up as a master ldap server. It may be that the smbldap-tools
will add the relevant samba parts to your already existing ldap users,
as long as the ldap users have the same usernames as your nt4
users.....
Bye Veronica
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