On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Keith Brown wrote:
Caution: It is difficult to change this decision after you run setup.
Hmmm. I'm not sure what drove us to make this statement in the documentation, as making this transition is actually quite simple and straightforward. I *think* that it might have been the fact that CIFS has to be stopped and restarted to move from workgroup mode into domain mode (or vice versa), thus temporarily and briefly disrupting file service to Windows clients. However, if you can arrange to make the transition at a time of low usage (the small hours of the morning for example), the disruption should have minimal impact. The whole operation should take just a few minutes. You need to execute a "cifs terminate" followed by another "cifs setup" and then you're basically done.
Just wanted to follow up that this went entirely smoothly and quickly. Indeed, just:
cifs terminate cifs setup
answer the questions for NT domain authentication as yes, and you're all set.
If the docs could be changed to reflect the fact that this is not difficult, all that is difficult is scheduling the downtime for the cifs service.
Until next time...
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