[CoLoCo] Jeff LePage - Migrating from AD to Samba

[David L. Willson]

Here's another article about AD and Samba.  This one is more about interoperating with
AD, but includes references to CSVDE (CSV Directory Export) which might be very useful
in your project.

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:53:22 -0600, David L. Willson wrote
> Jeff,
> 
> I remember that you are recycling your Windows license for use as a Terminal 
> Server, but I  might recommend that unless there's a specific advantage to 
> getting rid of AD, you may want to leave it in place until Samba 4 is ready 
> enough for you to use, and use a few shared XP boxes or Vista boxes for your 
> legacy Windows apps, instead.  Or, you could get someone to donate a Windows 
> 2000 Server license for you to use as a Terminal Server.
> 
> There is no smooth migration path from AD to Samba.  There is a path from NT4 
> to Samba which you may be able to use, in whole or in part, and there may be 
> some possibility to go from AD to NT4, but it doesn't look easy, by any stretch.
> 
> For NT4 to Samba, see the following articles:
> http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NT4Migration.html
> http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3454421
> 
> And for migration between Microsoft domains, see:
> Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) <-- Bear in mind, you won't find many 
> articles on downgrading to NT4.
> 
> I was wrong about TDBSAM as a good backend for you.  If you are satified with 
> one DC, you have almost no reason to migrate to Samba, and TDBSAM is not 
> suitable for multiple domain controller scenarios.  To get redundancy, you 
> want to use LDAPSAM at the back end and probably multiple LDAP servers.  For 
> detailed discussion, see: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-
> Collection/samba-bdc.html
> 
> -- David
> 
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