Converting a Windoze domain to SMB

[Eric Benoit]

All I can remember with Samba PDC is that kerberos and authentication is 
sticky if you have never done an ADS before.  I'm going to follow this 
thread as I'd like to do it here, but have nil experience with ADS, 
kerberos and authentication of computers and users.


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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