Hi, People: We have a Old (well functioning) Windows 2000 AD domain. We wish migrate DCs, if posible, to SAMBA4.? We actually have four sites with one DC in three of them and three DCs in one of them. Just one DC is Windows 2008, the rest is Windows 2000. Join SAMBA4 as DC automatically is not posible, I think, because DNS servers are not configured with 2008 behaviour and actual DNS entries does not replicate to SAMBA. Therefore, I can't replace Windows DCs. Is there any method/howto to achieve this with minimum disruption?. Or the only way is upgrade DCs to Windows 2008 (paying new licenses) and then join SAMBA4 DCs to domain, transfer roles an demote Windows DCs? Thanks in advance! Iv?n
Gaiseric Vandal
2020-Jun-30 17:04 UTC
[Samba] Advices about migrate W2000 domain to SAMBA4
I would first move all FSMO roles to the Win 2008 server then demote the 2000 DC's to regular servers. You would then need to update forest and domain levels to Win 2008. At that point you could upgrade to Win 2008 R2 and then to 2012. Obviously backup/snapshot machines first. Alt, you could install a Win 2012 server and make it the main DC, and then demote the 2008 machine. I don't think you can have 2008 and 2016 DC's coexisting but I could be wrong. If this is just transitory, you could probably skip licensing and use work in eval mode. With all due respects to Samba, if you have working Windows DC what is the advantage of moving to Samba DC's? I have used Samba DC's for a long time and was quite happy with it, but implement MS Exchange required a switch to true Windows DC's. I appreciate you might save some licensing costs but at what cost in time and effort? You can still have linux file server running samba if you don't want to license Windows for your file servers. -----Original Message----- From: samba <samba-bounces at lists.samba.org> On Behalf Of Ivan Lopez via samba Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 11:45 AM To: samba at lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Advices about migrate W2000 domain to SAMBA4 Hi, People: We have a Old (well functioning) Windows 2000 AD domain. We wish migrate DCs, if posible, to SAMBA4.? We actually have four sites with one DC in three of them and three DCs in one of them. Just one DC is Windows 2008, the rest is Windows 2000. Join SAMBA4 as DC automatically is not posible, I think, because DNS servers are not configured with 2008 behaviour and actual DNS entries does not replicate to SAMBA. Therefore, I can't replace Windows DCs. Is there any method/howto to achieve this with minimum disruption?. Or the only way is upgrade DCs to Windows 2008 (paying new licenses) and then join SAMBA4 DCs to domain, transfer roles an demote Windows DCs? Thanks in advance! Iv?n -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
On 30/06/2020 16:44, Ivan Lopez via samba wrote:> Hi, People: > > We have a Old (well functioning) Windows 2000 AD domain. We wish > migrate DCs, if posible, to SAMBA4.? We actually have four sites with > one DC in three of them and three DCs in one of them. Just one DC is > Windows 2008, the rest is Windows 2000. > > Join SAMBA4 as DC automatically is not posible, I think, because DNS > servers are not configured with 2008 behaviour and actual DNS entries > does not replicate to SAMBA. Therefore, I can't replace Windows DCs. > > Is there any method/howto to achieve this with minimum disruption?. Or > the only way is upgrade DCs to Windows 2008 (paying new licenses) and > then join SAMBA4 DCs to domain, transfer roles an demote Windows DCs? > > Thanks in advance! > > Iv?n > >It will be a dns problem, the W2K dns is very different from the later versions. I think you may be able to change the dns on the W2008, see here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/817470/how-to-reconfigure-an-msdcs-subdomain-to-a-forest-wide-dns-application Whatever happens, if you go for a Samba domain or a Windows domain, you are going to have to deal with the dns problem. Once you have the later DNS, you should find joining a Samba DC fairly easy. Rowland