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

[Peter Childs]

On 08/02/06, Simon Morris <simon.morris at cmtww.com> wrote:
>
> Matthew Thompson wrote:
> > I've got the joyous task of re-engineering the works' network from
> > NT4 to Windows 2003 and thanks to a cock up about 9+ years ago,
> > before I joined, the domain on the NT 4 network contains an
> > underscore. And domains can't be renamed on NT4.
> >
> > It's a hard slog but we've decided that for cleanliness we'll rebuild
> > the network from scratch with some trusts in place and migrate users
> > over one at a time but our main file store is a Samba server and I'm
> > having difficulty deciding how to do this.
> >
> > Anyone got any suggestions that will help me keep Samba and stop me
> > from having to migrate the whole lot to a Windows box?



I'm no samba expert and no very little but I know a samba server can have
two names and appear on the network under both names. so can you just add
your samba server to both domains and let the samba server run in both
domains at the same time.
I may be talking rubbish in which case ignore me.

Peter Childs
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