Linux as a PDC: Replacing Windows Server NT and 2000

A few links on replacing a PDC with Linux:

The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide

Designed to help you get Samba-3 running quickly. The Fast Start chapter is a direct response to requests from Microsoft network administrators for some sample configurations that just work.

Using Samba as a PDC Mastering a Domain with Samba

Samba is quite capable of acting as a PDC. Over the years, it has demonstrated good performance, reliability, and scalability. It can run on very modest hardware, and there are no licensing issues. This article will show you how to reconfigure your Samba installation to have a PDC up and running in no time. We'll also talk about some important authentication issues.

Replacing a Windows NT/2000 server using Linux and SAMBA

A Linux server with SAMBA properly configured can substitute a Windows NT/2000 server, it commonly shares directories, gives an active directory service (ADS) but it can also work as PDC (Primary Domain Controller), doing the users authentication with Windows 2000/NT/98/95 clients, sharing resources (directories and printers) and customizing the user sessions.
This article concentrates particularly on these aspects.

Save big by replacing NT file servers with Linux Samba

In this article, I'll go step-by-step through the process of setting up a Samba file server on Linux and optimizing it for security and performance in a Windows NT domain. I'll also explain how to avoid common configuration errors and show you how to set up shares. Although Samba can also be used as an excellent print server, this article will focus primarily on configuring a file server. Nevertheless, once you set up your Samba configuration, you can easily add printing services by learning the Linux method of setting up network printers.

Replacing Windows NT Server with Linux

Network Operating Systems (NOS) have many features and capabilities that allow the Information Systems departments of most organizations to better server your organization and help streamline work flow. Each NOS has different features and a excels in different areas. Traditionally, Novell Netware has been viewed as the best file/printer server, Unix was viewed as the premiere application and database server and recently, Windows NT has come in as a good choice for the smaller networks as a file/printer server or application server. The market has become very aggressive with each of these platforms branching out into each others market area. Microsoft has expanded NT into the midrange server market once dominated by Novell and is trying to get into the high end market which was once filled by Unix venders such as Sun, Hewlett Packard and Silicone Graphics.

Converting from a Windows PDC to a SAMBA PDC

This is simply the content of a detailed posting to the SAMBA-technical mailing list. IT IS NOT AN OFFICIAL SAMBA CONFIGURATION HOWTO DOCUMENT I have not verified it's accuracy, but it's the most comprehensive description I've seen of an NT to SAMBA migration I've seen.