That I think that could work, the thing I am concerned about is that if we get some crazy software that interacts with AD or something like that. Do you know it is possible to use LDAP, and then make the Windows server the PDC and just not copy the users to AD but still have them function on the network with out recreating them on the windows server?
Thanks for all the help Andrew On 4/12/05, Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:45 -0400, Andrew Debnar wrote: > > I just started at a new company and they do not have a server at all I > > want to put a samba server in place but I need to make sure that in > > the future I could add a windows server if we buy software that > > requires it. Does anybody know if this is possible to do? I ideally I > > would like it to import the users and their information to the AD on > > the windows server but is not required. > > What's wrong with running the windows server as a domain member. There > is no way to import users (well, their passwords are the tricky part) > from Samba into AD that I know of. > > Andrew Bartlett > > -- > Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ > Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org > Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net > > > -- Andrew Debnar 703-652-6012 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
