samba - Oct 2003 - Clarification needed regarding documentation concerning NT4 PDC to Samba3 migration

I followed the documentation concerning migration of NT4 PDC to Samba3. I set up
the official release of Samba 3 on Red Hat Linux 7.3 and configured it as
recommended in the documentation, joined the domain and then ran the net rpc
vampire command. I did not do anything else. Now, this part of the documentation
is unclear to me and I quote:

"It is possible to migrate all account settings from an MS Windows NT4
domain to Samba-3. Before attempting to migrate user and group accounts, it is
STRONGLY advised to create in Samba-3 the groups that are present on the MS
Windows NT4 domain AND to map them to suitable UNIX/Linux groups. By following
this simple advice, all user and group attributes should migrate
painlessly."

What is meant by creating groups in Samba 3? I tried searching the
documentation. I could locate creating users, but couldnt locate creating groups
in Samba. Could this mean Unix to NT group mapping using smbgroupedit?

Appreciate responses.

Regards

Saqib


Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
Assisant Professor
NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi

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> I followed the documentation concerning migration of NT4 PDC to Samba3. I
set up the official release of Samba 3 on Red Hat Linux 7.3 and configured it as
recommended in the documentation, joined the domain and then ran the net rpc
vampire command. I did not do anything else. Now, this part of the documentation
is unclear to me and I quote:
> "It is possible to migrate all account settings from an MS Windows NT4
domain to Samba-3. Before attempting to migrate user and group accounts, it is
STRONGLY advised to create in Samba-3 the groups that are present on the MS
Windows NT4 domain AND to map them to suitable UNIX/Linux groups. By following
this simple advice, all user and group attributes should migrate
painlessly."
> What is meant by creating groups in Samba 3? I tried searching the
documentation. I could locate creating users, but couldnt locate creating groups
in Samba. Could this mean Unix to NT group mapping using smbgroupedit?
Pretty much, do a "man net"

Maybe take a look at -
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/AbusingWin32.pdf
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Samba3-WhatsNew.sxi.pdf