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Hello, I'm finding migration Windows 2003 AD to Samba + LDAP solution. I seen there can use pwdump2 to dump all accounts information in Windows 2003. I tried it but only can dump local account not AD accounts, cound anyone share some experience to me ? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=w...

Hi, I have a smbpasswd file from a Samba-2.0.x, generated with pwdump2 [1] . I'm in a NT-PDC to Samba-PDC migration. The documentation says that it generates Samba-2.0 style smbpasswd file [2]. But I would like to use the smbpasswd on a Samba-2.2.x machine. I've read that smbpasswd format changed . Is there a tool to convert smbpasswd from 2.0 to 2.2 ? I can...

...1. Local profiles. It does not seem to be possible to move from an NT4 PDC to a Samba PDC while retaining local profiles. NT4/W2k machines consider logons to the Samba PDC to be new users, even when the Samba machine SID is the same as the NT4 SID, and machine accounts have been ported over using pwdump2. OK, so let's try.... 2. Roaming profiles. Although these work correctly with NT4 workstations, there remains an unresolved "Access Denied" problem on logons with W2k machines, whether or not "nt acl support = no" is present in the [profiles] section of smb.conf. Various p...

...w user (or existing user on a new machine), on logging on to the Samba PDC for the first time. We've never used roaming profiles, they're all local because all our clients are set up very differently. Steps taken to migrate users: 1. Extracted user and machine accounts from NT4 PDC using pwdump2 to generate smbpasswd. 2. Obtained domain SID from NT4 PDC using rpcclient lsaquery and placed in MACHINE.SID. 3. Matched /etc/passwd to smbpasswd (user and machine accounts). Globally changed uid's on all files on Samba box to match uid's from NT4 PDC. 4. Added PDC stuff to smb.conf. 5. De...

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

...t an equivalent mechanism to SYSKEY, however i do not have the relevant security skills to say whether a proposal is secure or not. i will outline the requirements, first, and then a possible proposal. 1) the SAM database may be accessible read-only (for example on NT, using REGEDT32 or PWDUMP or PWDUMP2) it should not be possible to decrypt the passwords, even though it is possible to obtain a binary or over-the-wire copy of the SAM database. 2) a mechanism to encrypt or decrypt the passwords should be reasonable fast so that any updates do not result in simultaneous accesses to the SAM database...

Hi, I want to switch from our Windows NT server ( which works as our PDC ) to Linux - Samba. Could you advice a step-by-step guide about this process, or is that possible, at all? Can I use Samba as a BDC, convert the user DB and than promote it to PDC? Thanks in advance! Regards; Istvan

I am so stoked I just had to share this with y'all. I just "SEAMLESSLY" migrated all of my machines and users over to my new Gentoo Linux Server. I even kept the same: domain name and old PDC NetBios name. The trickiest part was getting all of the users to keep their same profile, but I managed that by cloning the RID and Lanman/NT hashes for the user accounts. Free at last! #