Jonas try to create a user for your win2k machines like this... Linux System > Machine$ Samba System > Machine
replace Machine by your machine name... ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonas Oberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: [Samba] Migrating W2K AD to Samba? > After a frightening experience with W2K Active Directory, we've been > considering an "emergency migration" to Samba. I've been looking at > both 2.2.7 and the latest 3.0 alpha, but have found little information > about migrating from W2K. Most information seems to be about Windows > NT PDC. > > What I've tried is to pull the information from the AD tree with > pwdump3 and put it in the smbpasswd file, with some small > conversions. I've taken the domain SID and put it in DOMAIN.SID and > created all the corresponding UNIX accounts for the computers. > > Unfortunately, the clients are still experiencing problems when > logging into the moved domain. Even a level 10 log doesn't tell me > anything specific about what's going on; it keeps repeating that the > user authenticated correctly. But on the W2K client, the users only > get the information that their password/username was incorrect. > > With 3.0 alpha, I also struggled a bit first with getting the group > bits right to map Domain Users to the users unix group, but I think I > got that one down. > > Does anyone have any information to share? I'm beginning to think that > this kind of migration is not possible, and that we should burn for > allowing the migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 in the first > place :-) > > > -- > Jonas �berg > Systems administrator/webmaster, Department of Informatics, > School of Economics and Commercial Law, Gothenburg University. > Phone. +46-31-7732717, Fax. +47-31-7734754 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.427 / Virus Database: 240 - Release Date: 6/12/2002 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
