[ale] Samba 3.0rc3 or Samba-tng for NT PDC?

[Raju]

Thanks, appreciate the insight. I have a test environment setup for
muti-domain envs and yup, Samba3rc3 has no improvements as far as trust
goes (maybe the final release will address this). I don't need any AD
stuff at this point so basic NT 4.0 style functionality will take care of
a lot of my headaches.

I already started to build an LDAP service to migrate NIS from *NIX box
and then plan to combine it with Samba for M$ account management. Plan B
was to add accounts manuall, but I guess it has been a given a shove to be
Plan A now;-) The initial goal was to be as transparent as much as I can
to the users, but hey there is only so much you can do :-)

--Raju


> Don't want much, do you? :)
>
> Samba-tng was the development track that led to Samba 3.0. So I don't
> think it is currently under development.
>
> My readings on the group mappings have always ended with "but you will
> likely need to migrate by hand". That is not encouraging for an
> organization with more than 20-30 people getting migrated.
>
> The multi-domain trust is still very experimental (**note** I have not
> been testing anything with Samba 3 versions yet) with a mixed *nix/samba
> and Microshaft DC environment. One of the changelogs did mention that an
> all samba DC (PDC and BDC) setup should be working now. I don't know if
> the rollback from a lost PDC -> BDC then PDC back online is working
> properly or not. There seemed to be some confusion about the BDC
> releasing when the PDC was restored a while back.
>
> The multi-domain support is good for user authentication, but
> cross-domain authentication is as flaky as it is in windows. Windows
> 2003 server seems to addressed that issue (I've never had to handle it.
> Nor do I want to :) but with some crankiness for older servers as BDC.
>
> Good luck!!
>
> On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 08:14, Raju wrote:
>> I have completed 85% of my goal to migrate every service to *NIX
>> (OpenBSD/Redhat Linux) from Windows for my current Client. The only
>> major issues that are pending are the PDC, BDC and WINS boxes. I have
>> poured through several documents from sources (google specifically) on
>> information regarding the migration process / success. None of them
>> actually provide a sucess story :(  I was wondering if anyone has done
>> this before and willing to share some pointers :-) I would like to see
>> a full Open Source shop and not management asking me to revert back to
>> M$ :(
>>
>> 1. Multi-Domain environment therefore inter-domain trusts are needed
>> (Samba 3.0 is supposed to support it)
>> 2. Would like to have Samba with LDAP than smbpasswd for the backend.
>> 3. Migrating NT 4.0 accounts as stated by Samba 3.0 docs does not
>> work. Even after creating the groups and then doing groupmaps. Anyone
>> had any success?
>> 4. Have not messed with Samba-tng, since the project seems to not
>> moved any further :-)
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> --Raju
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