On Monday 29 March 2004 05:07, kaze wrote: > Can I take an existing bunch of local users accounts and flip it into a NIS > or Samba PDC server?
Yes, especially if you use LDAP and the migration tools scripts from http://www.padl.com/OSS/MigrationTools.html to migrate the accounts. > > Can a Samba box serve the same directory data as _both_ a NIS server and a > Samba PDC? As far as I am aware it can. Again with LDAP you can also serve up the same data as an NIS server. > > Assuming an environment with a few servers with static DNS and IP info > where the clients are not doing any peer to peer file and print sharing, > what is the downside to NOT having an Active Directory, i.e. a Samba 3.0 > PDC? Samba 3.0 cannot yet be a, "Active Directory" domain controller but, it can be a PDC. :^)=) -- Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
