samba - Aug 2007 - Active Directory

Hello

For the moment I manage the user in the network with win 2000 Server.
I want to use an linux OS to manage the network? Is this possible.

So. How can I organize and configure the Cent OS to use it as Active
Directory Server, and to open all the existing users
there, and then to shut down the win2000 Server and to Activate the
CentOS as domain controller?

I want to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.0. And Samba 4.0

Can someone help me in this?

Thanks

On 8/1/07, Adriatik Allamani <aallamani@ert.gov.al>
wrote:
> So. How can I organize and configure the Cent OS to use it as Active
> Directory Server, and to open all the existing users
> there, and then to shut down the win2000 Server and to Activate the
> CentOS as domain controller?
>
> I want to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.0. And Samba 4.0
Samba 4 is not out yet; the Samba 4 Technical Previews are not
recommended for production use.  I'm not aware of any docs or howtos
on how to migrate from Windows AD to Samba 4 AD.  (I *think* that I've
seen comments about the Samba team working to get full-fledged AD
replication working in Samba 4, which would mean that migrating to
Samba should be as simple as promoting a Samba 4 DC then demoting the
Windows DC.  But I don't know that Samba 4 can do that yet.)

Samba 3.x cannot serve as an Active Directory domain controller.  It
can serve as a NT4-style domain controller, but I suspect that you
would need to rejoin all of your computers to switch from a Windows AD
domain to a Samba NT domain.  If your Active Directory domain is still
in mixed mode, then I imagine that you could at least migrate users
using Samba's net vampire command
(http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NT4Migration.html),
but it's not something that I've tried.

Josh Kelley