For historic reasons we have a DOMAIN name of 'WORKGROUP' on our one server only samba PDC. Now that we have upgradced to 3.0.25 We would like to change this to something more sensible, but are concerned what the consequences will be for the Win XP Pro workstations that are currently joined to this domain. which of the following scenarios will we likely face after the change? scenario #1 (wishful thinking) we only change the domain name on the one pdc of the domain and on next login of a win xp pro workstation it will automagically learn that the sid of it's domain now 'translates' to a new name and will show this new domain name in places where it used to say the old name 'WORKGROUP' in the past. scenario #2 the right sequence of getlocalsid and setlocalsid before and after the domain change on the samba pdc, can allow us to 'cheat' and the workstations can be 'tricked' into preserving the domain trust relationships and won't need to leave the domain and be re-joined after the renaming of the domain? scenario #3 all workstations have to leave the old DOMAIN (does this have to be done before the rename?). and after the renaming of the main PDC we'll have to rejoin all windows xp pro workstations to the newly named domain? scenario #4 any other suggestions or hints on how to best do this, with the least impact and downtime and admin work coming our way? Many thanks in advance for any help or pointers on this. -- Urs Rau
> scenario #3 > all workstations have to leave the old DOMAIN (does this have to be done > before the rename?). and after the renaming of the main PDC we'll have > to rejoin all windows xp pro workstations to the newly named domain? > > scenario #4 > any other suggestions or hints on how to best do this, with the least > impact and downtime and admin work coming our way? > > Many thanks in advance for any help or pointers on this. >Hi Urs, I can't say for sure what would happen, but my guess is that scenario #3 is your best option. However, since it is possible that things could work out in your favor, I would recommend setting up a quick test. Set up a Samba server as a PDC of a different domain, join a workstation to it and then rename the domain on the PDC and see what happens.... then if anything goes bad, you can always wipe the test machines out. Hopefully that helps, Matt