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 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 _emulator_ roles, which are only necessary if >> you're in a mixed-mode network - I.E. you have both AD >> (Win2000/2003,XP) and non-AD (NT 4) servers in your network. >> >> However, this quote from chapter 4 of the SAMBA-3-HOWTO would indicate >> you're out of luck > > Thanks very much both to you and Dave for the quick replies. Shame I > can't convert another machine to Linux but at least since we invested > in a proper hardware RAID controller we might be able to get away with > the existing Windows 2003 on that server. > > Cheers, > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
