[Samba] Best strategy to move/upgrade Samba 3 PDC to new Samba 4 server

[L.P.H. van Belle]

But still.. if you are going to use windows 10 also, 
Really, best is to upgrade to AD, and dont be scared.. we are here.. 

And really, if you have AD and get the hang of GPO's, which makes
Maintaining so more easy.. 

Greetz, 

Louis


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens mathias dufresne
> Verzonden: dinsdag 13 oktober 2015 16:39
> Aan: Samba List
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Best strategy to move/upgrade Samba 3 PDC to new
> Samba 4 server
> 
> To test this upgrade process you could copy your PDC system into some VM,
> then run that VM in some network not accessible from your real PDC. And as
> it is a VM, you can run another VM on same not-accessible network to run
> your Samba4 and proceed to your tests.
> 
> To copy a system I expect tools are existing but you can also simply mount
> each partition of your real PDC in some directory (ex: root FS is on sda2
> :
> mount /dev/sda2 /mnt && cd /mnt && find . | cpio -o >
> /path/with/enough/space/rootfs.cpio).
> You proceed for each real mounted partition (ie not /sys, /proc...) and
> once in the VM, create partition, expend cpio file, run grub, reboot.
> 
> No more reason to be afraid ;)
> 
> 2015-10-13 15:59 GMT+02:00 MI <mi.lists at alma.ch>:
> 
> >
> > And of course, the important related question: Keep it an NT4 domain, or
> >>> upgrade to AD?
> >>>
> >>
> > Reading this list and the wiki and looking at the seemingly endless
> number
> >> of options for smb.conf makes the upgrade to AD seem pretty
> intimidating,
> >> and like you, I don't see any real benefit for our organization. One
> >> concern though, is that future Windows workstations will pretty much
> >> expect
> >> to be part of AD domains, so problems will begin to appear on NT
> domains.
> >> Already I see hints of issues with Windows 10, but I don't have any
> >> experience with that yet.
> >>
> >
> > I am really tempted to just setup my new server as a BDC, and then
> promote
> > it to PDC and remove the old server. But the scarcity and old age of
> > documentation about this worries me.
> >
> > And I do need to support Windows 10 for a few new Surface Pro 3
> machines.
> >
> > It would be nice if someone who has already done this would tell us how
> it
> > went.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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