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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