We just did this with our FAS940Cs in January.  There are two gotchas that I'm aware of:

First, the rollback procedure is *NOT* just adding it back to the NT4 domain.  There isn't a roll-back procedure documented anywhere that I or NetApp support could find.  Here's what NetApp came up with:

1.  Backup cifsconfig_share.cfg file
2.  Delete all /etc/cifs* files
3.  Run cifs terminate on filer
4.  Delete machine account in AD
5.  Delete machine account in NT 4.0
6.  Wait to ensure that both account deletions have been replicated to all DC's in both domains
7.  Create new machine account in NT 4.0
8.  "Enter ""priv set diag"" on filer console"
9.  "Run ""registry deltree auth"" on filer console"
10.  Run cifs setup to add system back to NT 4.0 domain
11. Replace new cifsconfig_share.cfg file with backup from above
12.  Restart cifs for all original shares to be recreated
13.  Verify membership of BUILTIN\Administrators group

We ran into some very strange cross-domain access behavior if we didn't follow this procedure.  I was fortunate enough to have a test filer to get this procedure down before migrating my production systems.  We had absolutely no problems with the migration, but I'm not leaving my cheeks in the wind!

Second, there is a bug related to nested groups when hitting NTFS qtrees from NFS clients (18984).  We hit this and will be upgrading to 7.0.4 (from old 6.5.something) in two weeks.

We didn't have a single problem during the migration at all.  We haven't done a lot w/ GPO on our filers so I can't add anything there.

Local groups continue to work just as they did in NT 4.0.  Some membership changes and re-ACLing needs to be done before the NT domain is fully decommissioned, but other than that there's no change.


Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
National Instruments

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"Andrew Clark" <andrew.clark@mail.com>
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03/30/2006 08:17 AM

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Adding Filers to Win2K3 Domains





Chaps

I am about to finally leave my NT4 domain for the brave new world of Win2K3. I have FAS3020Cs and would like to know of any gotchas I should be aware of.

Any GPO settings

Local Groups

 

That sort of thing.

I have done some research but haven't really thrown up any information.

Very many thanks

Andy Clark


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