samba - Oct 2006 - FW: Re: Migration NT4 domain to Samba/LDAP howto

Thanks for the help.. I got some reading matter for the upcoming fall
holiday ;-)

Questions so far that come to mind are:
My current Windows 2003 server must stay! It is the Application server: can
Samba act as a PDC with this machine in its domain? Or will win2003 try to
take over. It is just a member server.. Not a BDC.

Can i map the current users on my NT domain to LDAP users on my LDAP
directory. These users have an a-mail account and password in place! Will
this cause headaches? 

Thanks for the quick response untill now!

"Paul van Noort" <polleke@yfc.nl> wrote in message
news:20061017113539.A84FC18EB3@papias.yfc.nl...
> folks,
>
> Been searching the web and learned i can add samba to my Current NT4
domain.
> I guess i can promote my Samba machine to PDC afterwards then depreciating
> the NT machines (finally)..
>
> I have an LDAP driven mailserver and i would like to have an "one key
fits
> all" system where my LDAP directory handles the accounts for Samba And
> Postfix/imap on my mailserver (and in a later stage the intranet).
>
> Any thoughts on the best way to migrate the NT4 domain into the new
> situation?
>
> Help, links to cookbooks, general tips are appreciated
>
>
>
> Vriendelijke groeten,
> Paul van Noort

Have a look at Samba 3 by Example.
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/

Chapter 9 tells you how to do this.  You may also want to look at Chapter 5.
This has info. on using LDAP with Samba 3.

You can migrate all the user and computer info. from your NT 4.0 PDC
straight to Samba.  When you shutdown your NT box and activate your Samba
box, the users/client machines will not know the difference.

On 18 Oct 2006, at 22:28, Paul van Noort wrote:
> Thanks for the help.. I got some reading matter for the upcoming fall
> holiday ;-)
>
> Questions so far that come to mind are:
> My current Windows 2003 server must stay! It is the Application 
> server: can
> Samba act as a PDC with this machine in its domain? Or will win2003 
> try to
> take over. It is just a member server.. Not a BDC.
It can be a domain member server in a samba domain.  Remember that the 
samba domain is an NT4 style one
>
> Can i map the current users on my NT domain to LDAP users on my LDAP
> directory. These users have an a-mail account and password in place! 
> Will
> this cause headaches?
>
Possibly although this will be quite a project for you.  You may not be 
able to use the generic smbldap scripts to vampire the users out of 
your old NT4 domain.  I would suggest taking a copy of your ldap 
databases and then running a vampire to a brand new server with it 
being set up as a master ldap server.  It may be that the smbldap-tools 
will add the relevant samba parts to your already existing ldap users, 
as long as the ldap users have the same usernames as your nt4 
users.....


Bye Veronica