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

[Matthew Thompson]

> Winbind assigns RIDs algorithmically, which is where problems can  
> creep
> in. If you change your Samba setup to backend off LDAP or tdbsam, you
> can suck the account information out of your NT domain with "net rpc
> vampire". This should retain the same mappings as NT uses, and  
> allow you
> to move the domain transparently to a Samba PDC. Of course if you have
> this setup with an LDAP backend, there's very little to be gained by
> moving to AD any more.

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.

Active directory provides a lot of features that other Microsoft  
products tie into and we're a 170 user company with a heavy reliance  
on existing Microsoft technologies in the front office side of things  
- there really are some areas where Microsoft + Microsoft provides  
many fewer problems than Microsft + Something else.

Doesn't stop me wanting to run Linux for some file sharing tasks or  
for our backup server. NetBackup on a Linux box beats the pants off  
the same setup using Windows

M at t :o)
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