Hi I'm currently working on a project aiming at replacing all windows servers (about 20) in my company by linux servers. Some of these windows servers are windows 2000 domain controlers (one PDC and few BDCs) with active directory. We have about 900 client windows 2000 workstations and about 2/3 of them are domain members.
Our goal is to replace the windows servers that are domain controlers by samba servers, and of course, to avoid as much as possible a migration of the windows workstations because that would be a very long and human resource intensive task. Reading the samba documentation, I understand that samba 3 can act roughly like a windows NT 4 PDC, but not like an active directory server. My first conclusion is that our windows domain will probably have to "downgrade" to a "NT 4 like" domain, but I don't really know what impact this will have on windows 2000 workstations. So these are my questions: - Will we be able to achieve the replacement of the windows 2000 PDC et BDCs without any action on windows workstations ? Or should we prepare for bad days of workstations migration ? - Does anybody have a similar experience ? Thanks for your help. -- Olivier Navas Groupement Informatique et T�l�communications SDIS 33 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
