Back working on Samba migration after a long break of getting the school year underway. Now all our clinets are on DHCP, and we’re pushing out a 255.255.192.0 subnet mask. Servers are on an isolated subnet, and clients are authenticating okay.

The IPC vulnerabilities have made migrating the Domain Controller to Linux a priority. My plan right now

1) Set up a TESTDOMAIN domain, and transfer the domain SAM database.

2) Test the behavior of this domain

3) Try putting the domain behind a switch, along with a few ACTIVEDOMAIN clinets.

– change the name of TESTDOMAIN to ACTIVEDOMAIN

See if it works.

4) Go Live.

I’ve set up the test domain, using the program pwdump2.exe. It took a few days of troubleshooting to realize that the default RedHat ipchains were getting in the way of stuff- I couldn’t add new workstations to this domain. I think this is because I wasn’t allowing UDP traffic through the chains. I’m going to test this…