Migrating Users NT/2000 -> Linux
I am looking at migrating a whole set of users at a school from a current set up where they are on an NT to a linux server - ultimately because they're buying a whole set more workstations and can't afford the extra CALs for NT. Is there any easy way to migrate the users keeping their passwords (and home directories if possible but this could be done manually) in the same way that users can be migrated from NT to 2000 using the AD Migration Tool. I currently have a version of the users in a temporary 2k test server if this makes any difference or provides another way of doing it. Incidentally I will either be migrating them to redhat 8.0 or a version if suse if that makes any difference. Anybody done anything like this before? Thanks, Alex Brett alex.brett@brettcomputers.co.uk
be done manually) in the same way that users can be migrated from NT to 2000 using the AD Migration Tool. I currently have a version of
Such a tool is planned by the looks of things. See: http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/devel/roadmap-3.html for more details. In the meantime, you could use Winbind to do the authentication on the NT server (assuming that's going to live alongside the Linux system). Personally, I keep all student passwords in a secure database and 'pull' them to the servers (Linux & NT) using Perl scripts. All the best, Nial.
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