Re: [Samba] Curious: Windows - Samba 4 transition path?

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Bartlett 

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:46 -0800, Douglas VanLeuven wrote:
 Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
  Hi, all.  I see that the second alpha has been released, and that makes me
  wonder about one or two things:
  
  - Can you have a Samba 4 box be a DC alongside a Windows DC?
  - Failing that, is there a transition path from Windows AD to Samba 4?
  
  If either of these are true, it would save a heck of a lot of work,
  instead of having to rejoin a couple hundred clients to the domain.

 Someone else will have to answer about samba4 as a DC with an MS DC in
 harmony, although I wouldn't think that would be a goal.

We have parts of this technology working, because that is what we will
use for the new vampire code (the native AD replication work was by
metze, for his thesis).  

Having two-way replication will require some more work, but this is
certainly practical.  Production sites might start by having Samba as a
'read only DC', until they are happy we are not propagating invalid data
to the network.

Andrew Bartlett

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Re: [Samba] Curious: Windows - Samba 4 transition path?

2008-03-04 Thread Douglas VanLeuven 
Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
 Hi, all.  I see that the second alpha has been released, and that makes me
 wonder about one or two things:
 
 - Can you have a Samba 4 box be a DC alongside a Windows DC?
 - Failing that, is there a transition path from Windows AD to Samba 4?
 
 If either of these are true, it would save a heck of a lot of work,
 instead of having to rejoin a couple hundred clients to the domain.
 
 Thanks much,
 
 -Ken
 
 P.S.  Kudos on whoever thought of the Python scripting hooks.  While I
 don't speak Python, it would certainly be a strong incentive to learn
 it!
 

I recently enquired on the technical list and got an answer.

There exist vampire scripts to pull from an existing AD.  But right now
those scripts are transitioning from an older scripting language into
python and transitioning to a native AD methodology from an NT4 method.

Just have to wait a while.

Someone else will have to answer about samba4 as a DC with an MS DC in
harmony, although I wouldn't think that would be a goal.

Regards, Doug

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