On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Larry Liu wrote:

> Thanks John, for the confirmation.
>
> We know your documentation mention about " Samba-3 cannot function as a
> BDC to an MS Windows NT4 PDC, and Samba-3 can not function correctly as
> a PDC to an MS Windows NT4 BDC. Both Samba-3 and MS Windows NT4 can
> function as a BDC to its own type of PDC" in Chapter 6
>
> In case of the new Samba 3.0.0 PDC can not handle the load from the
> domain,  is there any other way to back out it back to NT4 with the
> current SAM data?  Third party utility?

No. There is no method to migrate from Samba-3 to NT4.

- John T.

>
>
>
> John H Terpstra wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Larry Liu wrote:
> >
> >Larry,
> >
> >I have found that the easiest way to migrate from NT4 to SAmba3 is to:
> >
> >1. Use tdbsam as a medium for migration.
> >2. Before migrating accounts:
> >     i. Make sure that you configure your smb.conf carefully
> >     ii. Include all the "user/group/machine scripts"
> >     iii. Do NOT run smbd before vampire is run.
> >3. Set up the smb.conf for a Samba-BDC
> >4. Join the domain before running vampire
> >5. Then finally run vampire.
> >
> >IF you want to use an LDAP or smbpasswd backend, use pdbedit to migrate
> >the database.
> >
> >- John T.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>Larry Liu
> >>Robert Inerbickler
> >>
> >>NT Migration Team
> >>Sun Microsystems
> >>
> >>
>
>

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