samba - Jan 2004 - machine group and pwdump.exe

Hi,

1. I want to migrate NT to Samba 3 domain without needing to rejoin all machine
(using same domain name and SID). just curious, machine account should belong to
what group sid? does it matter if belong to any value?
 
2. I just examine output of pwdump, some of member domain or even NT BDC is has
"*****" in password field which means this account was disabled.
I've verified that machine is still valid member domain/bdc. it can browse
network and do some administrative task.
Any explanation?

--beast

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 03:06, Beast wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1. I want to migrate NT to Samba 3 domain without needing to rejoin all
machine (using same domain name and SID). just curious, machine account should
belong to what group sid? does it matter if belong to any value?
>  
> 2. I just examine output of pwdump, some of member domain or even NT BDC is
has "*****" in password field which means this account was disabled.
> I've verified that machine is still valid member domain/bdc. it can
browse network and do some administrative task.
> Any explanation?
> 
---
the net rpc vampire command is specifically created for that purpose. It
must transition the SID from the current NT PDC to the new Samba PDC for
you to be able to preserve the profiles & machine accounts - otherwise
there will be a lot of do-over

Craig