Converting a Windoze domain to SMB
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Sep 30 18:47:36 EDT 2005
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.
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>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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