[OT] [Gllug] Migrating Samba servers between domains - the hard way.

[Simon Morris]

Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>  > Sounds like a lot of hard work for what I need considering we have to 
>  > move to AD on Windows 2003 as there's no-one else here who 
>  > understands how any of the Linux stuff works. Our internal support 
>  > manager is bad enough with a GUI and being dyslexic doesn't help when 
>  > you're using text files.
> 
> That being the case, you might as well rip out the old NT domain and
> re-join the clients. It should then be easy to join your Samba machine
> to your new AD domain. Samba is well tested as an AD client, and there's
> lots of docs out there.
> 

Don't - the user profiles will kill you. Compared to home directories on 
  *nix Windows user profiles are the least portable, 
complex-for-complexity-sake collection of poop going

~sm
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