Hi Collins, I think you can do this but it would be easier if you try to upgrade a windows server instead of install a windows server. I will explain:
- samba server is compatible with windows NT 4 domain, so install a windows NT 4 BDC in your samba domain - with thi done, tested and approved - upgrade this windows NT 4 BDC to windows 2003 domain controller. I think that if you try to install windows 2003 as a domain controller of your samba's domain you will get problem when w2k3 starts the syncronization process and try to copy/replicate the domain objects. Marcos --- "Collins, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Four years ago, I migrated our network from Windows > NT based servers to > Linux, Samba+LDAP based setups. This setup has > worked fine. Last year, > we replaced our Exchange 5.5 server - the last > "real" Windows server - > with Scalix. This last decision has come back to > bite me. > > Several new "thingys" that the boss wants, among > other things, are > forcing me to implement Exchange 2003. Because I > know that Exchange > 2003 requires AD and my company has three offices > separated by a WAN, > I'm going to be forced to rip out my Samba > underpinnings. The fact is, > I don't know the best way to accomplish this. > > I know the one way that this will work is to bring > up an AD domain > beside the Samba domain and move things around by > hand - but that is > going to cause a unbelievable nightmare with user > profiles, and machine > accounts, and all the other crap that goes along > with being part of a > domain. > > So my question is this: Can I bring up a Windows > 2k3 machine as a > member server in the Samba domain. Promote it to > become an AD Domain > Controller in mixed mode - retaining the domain SID, > user and machine > accounts and such so that I do not have to touch my > workstations? > > > -- > Kevin L. Collins, MCSE > Systems Manager > Nesbitt Engineering, Inc. > > Please note my new email address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following > URL and read the > instructions: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > __________________________________________________ Fale com seus amigos de graça com o novo Yahoo! Messenger http://br.messenger.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba