I'd highly recommend Samba HOW-TO and Reference Guide and Samba 3 by
Example for both questions below. By example starts with building a
samba server for a small workgroup, and then takes that example and
builds on it. The HOW-To and Reference Guide is THE how-to and
reference (yes, very clever on the title, aren't they?). You can
download both documents at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/ in PDF or
html format for free or purchase the print editions at any online
store.. ie, Amazon, Bookpool, etc...
For the question regarding WINS, your samba server can be a WINS server
or connect to a WINS server, see Chapter 9, section 5 of the HOW-TO.
For conversion from a winnt PDC to samba PDC, see Chapter 34 of the
HOW-TO. I've converted several winnt PDC to samba PDC. The key
information isn't knowing samba, it's really understanding how a NT PDC
works, if you're not sure, that's going to make it more difficult. But
it can be done, quite easily.
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I bought The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide. Thick book looks like
RTFM for the rest of the week! I haven't had to deal much with the PDC so I
will read up on that as well.
I was just curious if the steps I provided sounded plausible it sounded ok to
me.
I inherited this PDC and am hoping to replace it soon as possible. It is not a
real complicated PDC there are only about 12 user accounts(they share generic
accts) 3 shares and the normal NT default groups. I could build a new PDC and
start from
scratch but I do not want to have to rejoin all these computers to a new domain
so I would like to keep the 100+ computer accounts etc.
Thanks for the feedback!
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