[Samba] Migration to Samba.

[zarrabeitia at gmail.com]

Hi there.

[I just asked this over the irc channel, but since I got no reply, I
decided to cross-post here. Please forgive me if that is incorrect]

I'm trying to migrate an Active Directory domain (that is being used
only for authentication) to a samba3 domain. The network is small
enough to rejoin the clients one by one and recreate the user accounts
if necessary. However, the new user accounts don't have access to
their old folders. I've tried giving the new domain the same SID as
the old domain, but in that case, the windows clients refuse to join
the domain (they report a 'rpc error').

Is there anything I can do?

I think the ideal solution would be to emulate the sidHistory field
from the AD, but a message from 2005 (i think) on this list said it
was not possible with Samba3. Has that situation changed?

I've also tried to use the moveuser.exe command, to no avail. It
either claims that cannot find the account, or that the account
already exists, and fails in both cases.  The "profile wizard" from
forensit fails when trying to determine if the accounts are using
remote profiles.

I'd appreciate any advise you can give me.

(BTW, if there is a way to extract the password and machine account
information from the AD, let me know!)

Thanks,

Zarrabeitia.