This weekend, we're replacing a customer's Windows 2003 server with a Samba box. They lost their Windows media and we can't reset the administrator password, so we can't even login to the server to examine it. The best we can do is to boot Knoppix and copy the filesystem onto an external USB drive, to recover their files. We're not sure how we will recover their Exchange mail yet. The box boots properly about 1 in 20 times. Given this scenario, are we best off creating a new domain? It would be nice if we could migrate the oild domain so it's transparent to the users. If it's not possible, would it be if we had admin access to the existing Server? While I'm on the subject, is there any way to ease pain of Exchange -> Maildir migration? Current thinking is boot Windows server, have both Exchange and Maildir configured in Outlook, and drag the folders. What if we can't get the Exchange box to boot? -- Wayforth - the alternative Blackberry solution. http://www.wayforth.co.uk
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Antony Gelberg wrote: | Given this scenario, are we best off creating a new | domain? It would be nice if we could migrate the | oild domain so it's transparent to the users. If | it's not possible, would it be if we had admin | access to the existing Server? If the domain is mixed mode, the net rpc vampire should work. But if it's a native domain, other than some pwdump2 black magic and incense, a new domain is stil easiest in small environments. Best of luck over the weekend :-) | While I'm on the subject, is there any way to ease pain of | Exchange -> Maildir migration? Current thinking is boot | Windows server, have both Exchange and Maildir configured | in Outlook, and drag the folders. What if we can't get | the Exchange box to boot? I use fetchmail+procmail. Grab the mail from exchange via IMAP and use procmail for local delivery to $HOME/Maildir/ cheers, jerry ====================================================================Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "There's an anonymous coward in all of us." --anonymous -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDdK0BIR7qMdg1EfYRAtX7AKDxjzxoeMN06aNSzABxj+NjIKZXWgCcDvjF 11hXdNaJcO+Ibgy+wD7TWrg=Vv+R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> This weekend, we're replacing a customer's Windows 2003 server with a > Samba box. They lost their Windows media and we can't reset the > administrator password, so we can't even login to the server to examineanyway, to reset that passwd perhaps this works for you: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html> Given this scenario, are we best off creating a new domain? It would be > nice if we could migrate the oild domain so it's transparent to the > users. If it's not possible, would it be if we had admin access to thethis is the same question that I have for everybody, e.g. if I want to upgrade my linux/samba server can I do it transparently? thanks, Pablo Chamorro C. -- Tel: +57 (2) 7314752/3222/2595 - Fax: +57 (2) 7310514 Carrera 31 #18-07 Parque Infantil - PO Box 1795 - Pasto