[Samba] Advice for W2K migration to samba

Marcello Romani mromani at ottotecnica.com
Mon Mar 7 04:43:25 MST 2011


Il 07/03/2011 10:33, Andrew Bartlett ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 10:47 +0100, Marcello Romani wrote:
>> Il 04/03/2011 05:43, Andrew Bartlett ha scritto:
>>> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 09:17 +0100, Marcello Romani wrote:
>>>> Hallo,
>>>>        I'm running a W2K AD network with about 20 clients (mostly Windows
>>>> XP machines, some Ubuntu 10.04 clients). I also have a couple of samba
>>>> servers (debian 5) which are joined to the domain.
>>>> I need to upgrade from W2K to something which is not EOL.
>>>> The AD server is also a print server for the domain.
>>>> I only have about 20 user accounts, so recreating them from scratch
>>>> would be not a big problem.
>>>> Also, the user profiles are not stored on the server (no roaming profiles).
>>>> I read samba4 is still in alpha stage (alpha14 is listed on the wiki),
>>>> but in terms of functionality provided is would the best replacement for
>>>> my AD server.
>>>> I would be glad to hear from someone who has done the switch from W2K AD
>>>> to samba3 or samba4. Also, any advice or success/failure stories in
>>>> similar setups would be great.
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> This (Windows 2000 ->   Samba4) certainly has been made to work, multiple
>>> times.  Those successful migrations that I know of were via Windows 2003
>>> due to an odd Kerberos interop issue between Samba4 and Windows 2000.
>>>
>>> Andrew Bartlett
>>>
>>
>> Andrew,
>>       thanks for your response. Now that you mention it, I remember
>> having read something about the need to pass through 2K3 to land on
>> samba4. I'll investigate that detail (obviously I'd prefer to avoid
>> setting up a 2K3 server just to migrate...)
>> Would you then recommend going to samba4 instead of the (apparently)
>> more stable samba3 (samba4 being alpha as of today ?).
>
> It's a simple matter of what you want it to do.  You can't do printing
> with Samba4, and the file server is best used for just the AD shares,
> but on the plus side you get an AD server, and a smooth migration path
> from AD (you can't migrate AD to Samba3 without rejoining machines, and
> the loss of AD features).
>
> You can of course try the direct W2K migration - the issue that is know
> won't be a silly, un-noticed bug, it will either work or not.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>

I think I'll try the samba4 route.
The file server is already on a separate samba3 debian machine, so 
nothing would change on this side.
I'll have to do some research on whether I can move the print server 
funcionality onto the existing file server or setup a windows machine 
which would do just that.

Thank you for your suggestions.

-- 
Marcello Romani


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