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hello friends .. how many of you have migrated a windows Domain to a linux one ? I need some help on this .. A typical windows domain would have a couple of authentication servers and file/print servers plus application servers. It will also have proxys and mail servers and probably some kind of groupware and ofcourse a webserver. Now if we decide on migrating the servers to Linux we definitly have to take these into consideration. Lets forget the application server for the time being. You know all the work u have to do for portingsoemhting to *nix. Now things are pretty easy if u have all the time u need and u have a lotta people working on it. But what if the availability of the network is critical, and u have to get it done over the weekend ? Now we know that Samba can do a lotta work for you ( your workstations are still on Windows). But how do you make sure all the users have an account on the new server ? Even if you have just 200 users, you need to configure their, access rights, groups, their accounts on the mail server, maybe roaming profiles etc .. Now dont just sum it up with "samba can do it all .. just make it ur PDC and add all the users and groups". Ofcourse thats right but we wanna discuss the migration strategy which is foolproof. You know that we can use scripts to add all the 200 users, but then how do u get those info abt the 200 users out of the NT box? and in what format? and whats the script like (ofcourse it appends to /etc/passwd but then ... i need to knwo more abt it). thankx .. Roshin --Boundary_(ID_Ix74nSGwGPIzjH+00ozwEQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE></TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><BR></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>hello friends ..</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>how many of you have migrated a windows Domain to a linux one ? I need some help on this .. </STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>A typical windows domain would have a couple of authentication servers and file/print servers plus application servers.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>It will also have proxys and mail servers and probably some kind of groupware and ofcourse a webserver.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>Now if we decide on migrating the servers to Linux we definitly have to take these into consideration.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>Lets forget the application server for the time being. You know all the work u have to do for portingsoemhting to *nix.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>Now things are pretty easy if u have all the time u need and u have a lotta people working on it. But what if the availability of the network is critical, and u have to get it done over the weekend ?</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>Now we know that Samba can do a lotta work for you ( your workstations are still on Windows). But how do you make sure all the users have an account on the new server ? Even if you have just 200 users, you need to configure their, access rights, groups, their accounts on the mail server, maybe roaming profiles etc .. Now dont just sum it up with "samba can do it all .. just make it ur PDC and add all the users and groups". Ofcourse thats right but we wanna discuss the migration strategy which is foolproof. You know that we can use scripts to add all the 200 users, but then how do u get those info abt the 200 users out of the NT box? and in what format? and whats the script like (ofcourse it appends to /etc/passwd but then ... i need to knwo more abt it).</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>thankx ..</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG>Roshin</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_Ix74nSGwGPIzjH+00ozwEQ)--
