On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 23:22 +0100, Oliver Hensel wrote:
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Robert Casties wrote:
For that you can use PAM-SMB which authenticates unix users against a NT-PDC and samba. You will have to twiddle your PAM settings if you have mixed userbases I guess.
But then you have to keep the NT-PDC, which is not what the original user wanted, if I remember right.
You can setup Samba as a PDC as well. Been there, done that. Did it with 2.0.7. Although there are some culprits (It doesn't cope with a BDC, no matter if it's NT or Samba. And accessing it from Win2K has some problems IIRC, since MS changes RPC calls with every version and between the graphical and the textmode frontends.) But 2.2.0alpha was just released, maybe this aspect got improved, too?
Yes you can do that, but then there still remains the problem how to migrate the users and passwords from the NT PDC to the Samba server (especially since you cannot setup Samba to act as BDC to synchronize with the PDC, as you correctly mention). So we're back at the original question: how to migrate from NT-PDC to Samba-PDC (or standalone) with the existing users and passwords (and that automatically, secure and without too much hassle). I have not yet seen a really good suggestion, sorry.
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