Glenn Arnold
2003-Jun-04 16:51 UTC
[Samba] Can you use winbind and be a PDC at the same time?
Here is the scenario I would like to integrated samba into my old NT 4.0 domain, but at the same time I would like to create a new Samba Domain to migrate everybody too eventually. I have 100 new machines to install this summer and would like to add them to the new samba domain instead of the NT 4.0 domain. The reason I do not want to move everybody at once to Samba Domain is I have 300 W2K & XP machines that I have to recreate machine accounts, so I would have to manually go to every machine to change there domain to the samba domain. Also, I would like to test this out for a while to make sure Samba meets our needs. Which I pretty confident it will, but I will admit Linux and Samba is not my strong points, but I am getting better everyday! Plus, the cautious approach will allow me to win senior management approval. Is it possible use Winbind to make Samba Server a member of NT Domain, but be Samba PDC for a different domain? It will probably not work, but I am not a Samba expert, so I thought I get some input from this list with a lot more experience;-) Thanks for your help\ -Glenn