>No fear, folks are friendly here. I'm feeling pretty crabby today.
"A statesman is a dead politician. Lord knows we need more statesmen!" --Berkeley Breathed Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. Boeing Shared Services Group Enterprise Servers VM Technical Services 425-865-5940 > ---------- > From: Michael MacIsaac > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SAMBA questions > > > Hello, folks. I've just joined this list and it's the first time I have > > used a list server so please forgive any breaches of protocol and > > etiquette. > No fear, folks are friendly here. > > > Our client uses SAMBA for file and print on an NT4 domain and we are > > working on migration to Active Directory on Windows 2003. To simplify > the > > migration of users to the new domain, the plan is to create a new global > > group and nest the existing global group within. Also we have > received > > conflicting advice as to whether AD needs to run in native or mixed mode > in > > work with SAMBA. > So I guess LDAP is out of the question. Too bad. > > > 1. Can SAMBA handle nested global groups? > I don't believe so - UNIX/Linux groups cannot contain groups. I recall > someone flattened nested groups somehow, but this was a migration > strategy, not a coexistence one. > > > 2. Are there reference sites and/or other IBM experience with SAMBA and > > Active Directory? > I know there are a few shops out there doing this. I recall TCS presented > on Samba at SHARE about a year ago. Anyone? > > > 3. What mode should Active Directory run in in order to interface with > > SAMBA? > I believe with Samba 2, AD must be in "mixed mode". With Samba 3, AD can > be running in "native mode" (but that precludes 9x/ME clients). > > "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
