Converting a Windoze domain to SMB
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Tue Oct 4 10:04:39 EDT 2005
I'll send it to you directly, dont want people freakin out about
attachments here.
Eric Benoit wrote:
> Peter, do you think I could have a look at your smb.conf as well?
>
>
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Robert Meyer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I may have to fix my landlord's network, soon. They have a small
>>>> network of
>>>>
>>>
>>> XP
>>>
>>>
>>>> Pro boxen (can't change those due to apps) but their server appears
>>>> to have
>>>> been hijacked by spambots.
>>>>
>>>> I may want to convert the $6000 server to Linux to solve the
>>>> problem. As
>>>>
>>>
>>> far
>>>
>>>
>>>> as I can tell, it currently is running Email, Domain control and file
>>>>
>>>
>>> serving.
>>>
>>>> I haven't done any analysis on their apps, yet.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>> environment?
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>> on
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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