samba - Mar 2009 - Is the net rpc vampire at all destructive to a NT4 PD C?

"net rpc vampire ..." does NOT set the SAM or SECURITY hives of the
registry to "readable", which is what renders the PDC non-operable.

"net rpc vampire ..." is safe to use as many times as it takes to get
comfortable with the process.  I did it my self when I was converting
our "labs" NT4 domain to Samba.
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On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 13:48 -0500, Derek Werthmuller
wrote:
> Reading through the Samba3 -By Example guide and I'm confused with
> the 
> statement section 9.2 
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ntmigration.html#id2594565
> about accessing the SAM and Security sections of the registry will
> render 
> the PDC non operable. 
> Its clear from the text if you go and edit the registry(regedit etc..)
> so 
> you can read the entries your PDC will not work.
> 
> What's not exactly clear is if any of the tools like net rcp vampire
> or 
> getsid tools change the operation of the PDC in this way or any other
> way 
> for that mater.  The net rcp tools don't access the registry in this 
> destructive way do they? 
> Like: 
> # net rpc vampire -S TRANSGRESSION -U Administrator%not24get > 
> /tmp/vampire.log 2>1
> 
> Is it safe to run the net rpc vampire command on a PDC as many times
> as you 
> want in effort to test the NT4 -> samba PDC?  While keeping the NT4
> PDC in 
> production mode? 
> With the goal of test the full operation of the migrated PDC on a
> separate 
> network.
> 
> Thanks  
>         Derek 
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