On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:21 +0200, Alan Dodd wrote: > Ian Clancy wrote: > > Hello All, > > I'm looking for some advice \ shared past experiences of users on the list. > > I am in the process of planning a migration from an existing NT Domain to > > a Samba 3 / LDAP based domain. However, the existing NT4 PDC is also home > > to our Exchange 5.5 email server which we would like to keep in service. > > I imagine what i need to do is add the old NT4 PDC server to the new Samba > > Domain once i have completed the migration. I am not sure how to do this > > ?. I have found this software (U Promote ) at > > http://www.purenetworking.net/Products/UPromote/UPromote.htm that may do > > the trick. > > Has anyone out there performed a task similar to this or used this product > > ? or is it even necessary. Is there another (free) way ?. > > Thanks, > > Ian Clancy > > UPromote worked flawlessly on a machine with NT4 SP6 and Oracle (no > exchange server), demoting it from PDC when I set up new domain with > samba PDC, 50 users. > It was -much- easier and faster then having to call the Oracle staff to > perform a complete re-install of Oracle after having re-installed NT4! > We had a down time of approx 15 minutes. > For safety, beforehand I performed a mirror backup of the system HD just > in case anything went wrong. > We bought a license of upromote specific to one server (it is bound to > the server name). > Note that the NT4 was just installed as PDC in the first place, but no > workstation was joined to its domain, the network up to that moment was > peer to peer. > Now we have roaming profiles, netlogons etc, but this was all done AFTER > demoting the NT server, and only with samba, so I don't know if there > could be issues specific to upromote in un-joining the workstations from > your NT4 PDC, and I have no experience of exchange. > Also note that the domain name I gave to the new samba server was > different from the old domain name of the NT4 PDC - to be on the safe side. ---- I'll second that - I've used UPromote a couple of times to 'demote' a 'retired' NT 4 PDC to a member server. Worked great - alas - not free.
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