On 5/23/07, Gary MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah I know. Not a good question to ask on a samba newsgroup. Unfortunately for this client, the software they use requires a Windows server. Since the box is less than a year old, they do not want to purchase a second server for two applications. So, I am left with the task of converting the linux/samba server to WinBloze 2003 Server. There are only 10 workstations so if I have to unjoin them from the current domain and rejoin them I guess I could, but just wondered if there was a way to migrate the SID and such over to the new server?????
The Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) off of Microsoft's web site can migrate users and computers from an NT 4 domain (including a Samba domain) to Active Directory. This can save you from disjoining and rejoining workstations and from recreating user accounts. However, since it is a Samba domain and not a "true" NT domain, there's no way that I'm aware of to migrate user passwords or SID histories. If there was a way to set SID history yourself, then that would work; however, Windows doesn't directly let the administrator set the SID history attribute on an account in Active Directory. I'm sure it's possible to work around that (maybe by running a process as the LOCALSYSTEM account?), but I don't know how. Josh Kelley -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
