Re: Samba to W2K3 Migration?

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From: Arkane (Arkane_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/20/04


Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:47:01 -0800

Management have decided to bring 1/2 of the servers and site in-line with the
other half.

One half is running Samba 3.x + Win2K/WinXP and the other half is Win2K3 AD
+ WinXP.

They have decided it's in the sites' best interest that we move servers to
Windows 2003 or Windows 2000, that there are to be NO non-MS boxes (the only
exception here is the webserver at current) and all workstations in-time will
be moved to WinXP.

"Barry deFreese" wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:55:05 -0800, Arkane
> <Arkane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >We currently have a samba-3.0.6 PDC running on our network, I'm wondering if
> >anyone out there has any tips or tricks for easily migrating user/machine
> >accounts to Windows 2003 Active Directory.
> >
> >Samba is unable to communicate with an NT 4 BDC so I can't do it that way
> >and I can't run ADMT2 on it, as it's a Linux box.
> >
> >I'm assuming I will have to create the new AD domain from scratch, manually
> >moving users across from one system to another using a script of some sort.
> >We were hoping for a cleaner solution so we don't have to re-add some 600 PCs
> >to the new domain.
> >
> >I'm aware this may be entirely the wrong group for this question but I'm not
> >sure quite where to ask.
>
>
> Why are you migrating away from Samba??
>



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