On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 09:17 +0100, Marcello Romani wrote: > Hallo, > I'm running a W2K AD network with about 20 clients (mostly Windows > XP machines, some Ubuntu 10.04 clients). I also have a couple of samba > servers (debian 5) which are joined to the domain. > I need to upgrade from W2K to something which is not EOL. > The AD server is also a print server for the domain. > I only have about 20 user accounts, so recreating them from scratch > would be not a big problem. > Also, the user profiles are not stored on the server (no roaming profiles). > I read samba4 is still in alpha stage (alpha14 is listed on the wiki), > but in terms of functionality provided is would the best replacement for > my AD server. > I would be glad to hear from someone who has done the switch from W2K AD > to samba3 or samba4. Also, any advice or success/failure stories in > similar setups would be great. > Thanks in advance.
This (Windows 2000 -> Samba4) certainly has been made to work, multiple times. Those successful migrations that I know of were via Windows 2003 due to an odd Kerberos interop issue between Samba4 and Windows 2000. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Cisco Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
