[Samba] Importing Accounts from Windows?

[Hans-Wilhelm Heisinger]

I used a slick migration toolkit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/w2lmt/

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards
Hans-Wilhelm Heisinger


Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> Is there some automated system to import windows accounts into a samba
> or a samba ldap situation?
>
> I've got a few hundred users on an NT domain, and I'd like to migrate
> them sometime before the last piece of hardware supported by NT4
> rusts.
> Right now several linux based samba servers are doing all of the heavy
> lifting (shared files printers etc), but they are all looking at the
> domain controller for authentication.
>
> Considering the multiple vulns for NT, I know I could just run a
> password cracker against it, then create new accounts for everyone
> with their old passwords, but I'm reluctant to do that.
>
> Is there a way to transfer the account info from the PDC to samba then
> just shut the old thing off?
>
> Thanks,
>         Kyle
>