On Tuesday 21 June 2005 12:41, Matt Schwartz wrote:
> Unfortunately, with NT you can not demote it from a DC.  You have to
> reinstall the software as a member server

No! It can be demoted using a commercial software package called Upromote.
See http://utools.com/UPromote.asp for further info.

- John T.

>
> Alan Munday wrote:
> > I'm looking to migrate the DC functions of an old NT server (running
> > SBS) to Samba.
> >
> > While I'm nearly ready to complete the migration the one thing I have
> > been unable to find out is how to remove the DC functionality from the
> > old server.
> >
> > Is it good enough to just demote it to being a BDC?
> > I don't want to take the old server off-line as I will be leaving some
> > applications on there for a while.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Alan

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