Samba replacement
Chris Midkiff
cmidkiff at datacaptech.com
Thu Feb 28 17:40:59 CST 2002
Wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction:
I'm (finally) in the process of replacing our company's WinNT Domain controller with Linux and
Samba. I attempted to make the switch last night and had one issue that stoped me cold. I am
using the same domain name that we were using on NT (just unplugged the NT server). In order to
get our clients (win2k pro) to log in correctly, I have to re-add the machine to the domain from
the windows client 'add to domain' process. Once I do this, the samba controller will accept the
machine's logons.
Problem is, Windows creates a new user profile for this 'New' logon. Same user name, same domain
name, different domain server. I'd have to spend all night here copying settings to the new user
profile, re-setting up email accounts, etc. Does anyone know of a way to avoid this? The less
impact this change has on the end users, the better.
The way I see it, I either need to
(1) Let the clients logon without having to go through the windows add-to-domain process, so that
the client will not realize that the domain has changed, and won't create a new profile (This would
be Preferred) or
(2) use some sort of utility to copy the old user profile to the new one. (It would have to copy
_everything_ to have no impact on the users, including cookies, etc. You can't copy most of this
stuff manually... I don't even know if any such critter exists.)
Also, If I can make this change go smoothly, I was thinking of putting together a 'Migrating from
NT Domain to Samba Domain Howto' that we could put on the lug site. Believe it or not, the year
old Starband howto that I put on the lug site is still drawing readers.
Any ideas?
Chris Midkiff
chris at datacaptech.com
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