Converting a Windoze domain to SMB

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Mon Oct 3 08:45:58 EDT 2005


Call me later, I could send info for this but the stuff that would be 
long to explain is the digital encryption stuff you should turn off and 
I could show you that in 2 min here. Also, see if he really is using 
active directory and if he really needs it.

Robert Meyer wrote:

>Yes, I'll take whatever you have available.  I've never done this and I suspect
>that it's going to be the only way to get them out of hijack hell.  I didn't
>think about clam... Did I help you set that up?  Does it use the strange kernel
>hook so it can catch stuff as it's going to be written?
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>
>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
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>>I can let you have a smb file that's already setup for PDC and why use 
>>vexira? Clam can scan those shares just fine and it's free.
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>>Robert Meyer wrote:
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>>>I may have to fix my landlord's network, soon.  They have a small network of
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>>XP
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>>>Pro boxen (can't change those due to apps) but their server appears to have
>>>been hijacked by spambots.
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>>>I may want to convert the $6000 server to Linux to solve the problem.  As
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>>far
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>>>as I can tell, it currently is running Email, Domain control and file
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>>serving. 
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>>>I haven't done any analysis on their apps, yet.
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>>>Before I get into this, what does it take to convert a bunch of PCs from a
>>>Windows domain (quite possibly using active directory) to a SAMBA
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>>environment? 
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>>>I've worked a lot with SAMBA but never doing PDC stuff.  Like I said, I can
>>>only convert the server, not the PCs.  I will probably have to set up file
>>>shares but I can get Command Central Vexira to handle scanning for viruses
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>>on
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>>>the shares.  I may also have to convert them from using Exchange to IMAP but
>>>that's not terribly hard.  I've done Email conversions, before.
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>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Bob
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