> Could someone point me toward documentation on the impact to Samba of > upgrading from an NT domain to Active Directory? I've found docs on > Samba with NT domains and docs on Samba with AD, but not so much on > the upgrade process. I'd like to know exactly what I'm doing before I > do anything that could cut my Windows users off from the file > servers. Whether it's as easy as "do the upgrade and your Samba > servers will automatically make the transition", or I have to set up > Kerberos and make changes to smb.conf, I want to be sure I know all > the steps involved.
I don't know any such documentation (and good luck to you finding it) - I would think maybe you'll find something going from 2003 to 2008 ... but from NT to AD ... phew doggy... Anyway - I do have some advice for you. Find some way to attach a new hard drive to the windows server. Boot from something like centos cd1 in rescue mode. Use dd to backup the OS hard drive to a file on the new HD. If the OS hard drive is software mirrored, make separate dd's for each of the 2 hard drives. That way, you're free to do what you need to do, and you always have a safetynet. Assuming you're using Kerberos, my expectation is that you don't need to do anything at all on the samba server. But don't hold me to it. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
