On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Rapha�l Berghmans wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:55, John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Rapha�l Berghmans wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > We have on a central site a NT4 PDC and a NT4 BDC and on 6 secondary > > > sites we have a BDC on each site (the authentication for the > > > workstations on those remotes sites occurs on the local BDC and not on > > > PDC). > > > > > > Which could be the best way to migrate this environment to a > > > SAMBA-3.0.0/LDAP environment. But we cannot intervene on each 1600 > > > workstations. Then the migration has to be the most transparently as > > > possible for the users. > > > > Your configuration is typical of many. The samba-3 migration facility (net > > rpc vampire) should work fine. You should be able to run it against the > > local BDC - though I have not tested that. > > Indeed the SAM migration is very simple with vampire. But Samba cannot > made realtime synchronization with a NT4 PDC and how to manage the > modifications. Made a vampire each time a modification has been done on > the PDC is a little bit tricky (with 1600 users, 500 groups and 1700 > machines).
We have documented the fact that Samba-3 can not be a BDC to an NT4 PDC. Sorry. If yu want to use Samba as a BDC then your PDC must be Samba also. - John T. > > > > If you need help just ask. I am writing a follow up book to the > > Samba-HOWTO-Collection (The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide) > > called "Samba-3 by Example" and will have a chapter in there that will > > provide detailed presecriptive guidance on the migration process. > > > > If you like we could use your migration opportunity as the basis for the > > case study in the book. > > > > - John T. > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
