another special situation ;-) old server at customer runs samba-4.5.15 (not that relevant for my questions but while I am at it ...) and is a "classic PDC" -> NT4 based Yes, I know, I should upgrade/migrate that domain to ADS. But that customer basically does not have financial power ;-) and I wait for my money for months every time I write an invoice. So I want to avoid additional work ... at least where I can. I assume we will hit the wall as soon as Microsoft does some more changes to Windows sooner or later. I wonder what happens if I then remove the PDC ... ? Turn it off, set up a standalone server ... We talk about 2 or 3 users there right now. Another option might be to create a new ADS domain on the 2nd fileserver (I prepare a debian-based server already) and bite the bullet and join the machines there and recreate their profiles. (I can't remember right now if they run Win7 or Win10, got to check that) dunno. opinions? regards, Stefan
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:52:16 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> > another special situation ;-) > > old server at customer runs samba-4.5.15 (not that relevant for my > questions but while I am at it ...) and is a "classic PDC" -> NT4 > based > > Yes, I know, I should upgrade/migrate that domain to ADS. > > But that customer basically does not have financial power ;-) and I > wait for my money for months every time I write an invoice. > > So I want to avoid additional work ... at least where I can. > > I assume we will hit the wall as soon as Microsoft does some more > changes to Windows sooner or later. > > I wonder what happens if I then remove the PDC ... ? Turn it off, set > up a standalone server ... > > We talk about 2 or 3 users there right now. > > Another option might be to create a new ADS domain on the 2nd > fileserver (I prepare a debian-based server already) and bite the > bullet and join the machines there and recreate their profiles. > > (I can't remember right now if they run Win7 or Win10, got to check > that) > > dunno. > opinions? > > regards, Stefan >If there are only 2 or 3 users, then even a PDC is over the top ;-) Just turn it into a standalone server and run a workgroup. Okay, you will have to create all the users on the machine (if you want them to own files & folders), but, for 2 or 3 users, this isn't going to be hard. Oh and while you are at it, upgrade everything ;-) Rowland
Am 14.09.18 um 11:22 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:> If there are only 2 or 3 users, then even a PDC is over the top ;-)yep> Just turn it into a standalone server and run a workgroup. Okay, you > will have to create all the users on the machine (if you want them to > own files & folders), but, for 2 or 3 users, this isn't going to be > hard. > > Oh and while you are at it, upgrade everything ;-)Sure. There's new hardware prepared already but things got stuck a few months ago. The new machine is up to date with Debian. Old/productive machine runs on gentoo ... and does some more things like email etc grown stuff that is ugly to mess with ... so it keeps running. As mentioned the "motivation" is missing there.
Hi, and for the userprofile-part of this game you could use the User Profile Wizard - here: https://www.forensit.com/de/downloads.html Kind regards Franz>>> Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org> 14.09.2018 11:22 >>>On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:52:16 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> > another special situation ;-) > > old server at customer runs samba-4.5.15 (not that relevant for my > questions but while I am at it ...) and is a "classic PDC" -> NT4 > based > > Yes, I know, I should upgrade/migrate that domain to ADS. > > But that customer basically does not have financial power ;-) and I > wait for my money for months every time I write an invoice. > > So I want to avoid additional work ... at least where I can. > > I assume we will hit the wall as soon as Microsoft does some more > changes to Windows sooner or later. > > I wonder what happens if I then remove the PDC ... ? Turn it off, set > up a standalone server ... > > We talk about 2 or 3 users there right now. > > Another option might be to create a new ADS domain on the 2nd > fileserver (I prepare a debian-based server already) and bite the > bullet and join the machines there and recreate their profiles. > > (I can't remember right now if they run Win7 or Win10, got to check > that) > > dunno. > opinions? > > regards, Stefan >If there are only 2 or 3 users, then even a PDC is over the top ;-) Just turn it into a standalone server and run a workgroup. Okay, you will have to create all the users on the machine (if you want them to own files & folders), but, for 2 or 3 users, this isn't going to be hard. Oh and while you are at it, upgrade everything ;-) Rowland