[Samba] Migrating Win2000 PDC to Samba4 AD

[Thomas Simmons]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Lukas Gradl <samba.org at ssn.at> wrote:

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> Zitat von felix at epepm.cupet.cu:
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>  Hi!
>>>
>>> We want to replace an old Win2000 Server (PDC). As we've already some
>>> Samba4 AD-Controllers up and running we would like to migrate to that
>>> setup.
>>>
>>> Unfortunatly we're not really good at Windows-Stuff - our main Focus
>>> ist Linux.
>>>
>>> So perhaps someone could point as to a good (and ideally painless :-))
>>> way to migrate.
>>>
>>> So the current setup is:
>>> A single Win2000 PDC used mainly as File- and Printserver on some
>>> ancient Hardware. Clients run WinXP and Win7.
>>>
>>> What we want to achieve:
>>> A Samba4 AD server offering File- and Printservices on new Hardware.
>>> (Later on we add another Samba4 Server in the same AD which we've
>>> already done on another Installation, so no problem here)
>>>
>>> What we consider as possibly helpful things we have available: A
>>> Windows 2003 License and a Win2008R2 License which is currently unused.
>>> All new hardware is virtualized, so it's no problem to setup some
>>> additional server as intermediate step if necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So, any Windows-Guru available that can help us with that task and
>>> without having to recreate the whole Windows domain with all it's
>>> users and rejoining and reconfiguring all client-PCs?
>>>
>>>
>> I think this is what you're looking for:
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>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.**php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_**domain_as_a_DC<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC>
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>> Felix.
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> Felix,
>
> Thanks for your response. This is for joining to an existing
> AD-Controller. Does this work for Win2000 as well? As I said - we're not
> really good at Windows stuff and thought Win2000 is not Active Directory
> but the old PDC/BDC scheme.
>
> The Server shows "The Computer is a Domain-Controller" when checking in My
> Computer/Properties/Network.
> Does that mean this is an AD-Controller?
>
> Regards
> Lukas
>
> Yes, W2K is AD. Unless there is something I'm not aware of, the process
should be the same as 2K3 or any other Window Server. Join the S4 server as
a DC then copy your sysvol share and FSMO roles to the S4 server.

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