Hi, We have an old samba server, 2.2.8a, running on freebsd 4.9, as a PDC. There's currently a temporary, standalone mode, win2008r2 with an (mssql) app that for full utility requires running on a ADC. I have very little experience with AD. An older version of mssql and the app were running on a standalone win2k server, which is still available if needed. I've found various recommendations and documentation for moving from samba 3.x to win2003 using Active Directory Migration Tool. From what I've read it' s possible, although user passwords get reset. Can anyone advise me if version 2.28a can be successfully migrated using ADMT? I'm thinking the signorseal issue in 2.x might cause problems. I'd really prefer not to upgrade to a 3.x version, both because there may be compatibility problems on fbsd 4.9, and resource issues--the samba machine is currently also a sendmail server and I'd like to avoid doing anything to it until we have another server in place. fwiw, the new MS server will run a vmware guest os, as will the new unix mail server. Not sure yet about using samba for the new file server, or using MS. Any thoughts, suggestions, experiences or pointers would be much appreciated. Best regards, Riley -- "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." ?George Santayana
Hi Riley, On 24/08/2011 19:26, Riley McIntire wrote:> Hi, > > We have an old samba server, 2.2.8a, running on freebsd 4.9, as a PDC. > There's currently a temporary, standalone mode, win2008r2 with an (mssql) > app that for full utility requires running on a ADC. I have very little > experience with AD. An older version of mssql and the app were running on a > standalone win2k server, which is still available if needed. > > I've found various recommendations and documentation for moving from samba > 3.x to win2003 using Active Directory Migration Tool. From what I've read > it' s possible, although user passwords get reset. > > Can anyone advise me if version 2.28a can be successfully migrated using > ADMT? I'm thinking the signorseal issue in 2.x might cause problems. I'd > really prefer not to upgrade to a 3.x version, both because there may be > compatibility problems on fbsd 4.9, and resource issues--the samba machine > is currently also a sendmail server and I'd like to avoid doing anything to > it until we have another server in place.Have you considered using the upcoming Samba 4.0, which is able to act as a active directory domain controller ? A couple of organization have used it production, some for a couple of years now with some success. Matthieu -- Matthieu Patou Samba Team http://samba.org Private repo http://git.samba.org/?p=mat/samba.git;a=summary