Re: [SLUG] Women's meetup before SLUG: Fri June 29

2007-06-25 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Mary, > There will be the regular meetup of women before the SLUG meeting this > month: feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be > interested in coming. Added to the SLUG website. http://slug.org.au/node/76 Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia

[SLUG] restoring emails after a re-install

2007-06-25 Thread Chris Allen
I am planning to upgrade from UBUNTU 6.6 directly to 7.4 I understand this must be done as a "new" install rather than an update. I do not want to lose my emails on Evolution 2.6.1. What is the best way to back up / restore them for this exercise? Once before (FC5 to Ubuntu 6.6), I tried to do th

Re: [SLUG] restoring emails after a re-install

2007-06-25 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:30:53 +1000 Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning to upgrade from UBUNTU 6.6 directly to 7.4 > I understand this must be done as a "new" install rather than an update. > > I do not want to lose my emails on Evolution 2.6.1. > What is the best way to back up

[SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

2007-06-25 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I kept hearing that Samba 3 can join and do anything as a Windows Domain Controller even better than Windows itself. But now that I need it to replace a Backup Domain Controller (fka Secondary Domain Controller?) to a Windows 2003 Active Directory server I keep bumping into the following

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

2007-06-25 Thread Dave Kempe
Amos Shapira wrote: And I'm not sure how relevant this is for my situation - is Windows 2003 considered "NT4 PDC" or is it something newer that Samba can cooperate with as a BDC? yeah win2k3 is considered to be an nt4 pdc in this case. so you are fresh out of luck with samba 3. you might have a

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

2007-06-25 Thread DaZZa
On 6/26/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I kept hearing that Samba 3 can join and do anything as a Windows Domain Controller even better than Windows itself. But now that I need it to replace a Backup Domain Controller (fka Secondary Domain Controller?) to a Windows 2003 Activ

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

2007-06-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/06/07, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You need to get your terminology straight first. I suspected so :). Windows networking is so foreign to me. There's no such thing as a "PDC" or "BDC" in an Active Directory environment - especially a 2003 AD environment. There are PDC and BDC _e

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domaincontroller?

2007-06-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
You can always load windows 2003 into a virtual machine on a linux host. Its kind of scary but possible. Dean On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:56:02 +1000, "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/06/07, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You need to get your terminology straight first. > > I