All I can say is SBS is trouble when the company outgrows it. I wonder if you could use LDAP to get the accounts? Sam. Eric Peterson wrote: >Well this has turned out to be a nightmare! > >Does anyone have any tips on migrating from SBS to Samba? The normal >rules seem not to apply... see below. > >I have samba 3.0.7 running on Debian Sarge 3.1 and want it to replace >an existing Win2k SBS domain controller. The Samba machine will be >the PDC and therefore will be doing all the domain authentication. > >I was hoping to make the migration as transparent as possible, but it >seems that because it is SBS and not a full version on Win2k Server I >can' t use the existing profiles on the Samba box. SBS runs in >'Native' mode and therefore it doesn't allow NT style domain >controllers. Thus I can not use 'net rpc vampire' to copy the SAM >information from AD running on the current Windows box. > >So I thought I would just try copying the Windows user profile >directories to the Samba machine and then just script the addition of >user accounts. The only problem is that all the user settings are >unreadable after this. I can still login to the domain and access My >Docs and all that good stuff, but all the desktop settings and >application settings seem to be lost or inaccessible. > >I think this is because the NTUSER.dat file is inaccessable due to the >SID differences. I then thought I could use the profiles tool that is >included with Samba-3, but its use is also a bit confusing. > >Can anyone help??? > >Thanks, >Eric > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list