From Part 1:
“It’s official: as of December 31, 2004, Windows NT4 is no
longer supported by Microsoft, unless you want to buy a year of
custom, paid support. For all of you hardworking sysadmins of NT4
domain controllers who are now wondering what to do, here are some
of your options:
- “Change nothing. So you lose vendor support–so what? Was it so
hot in the first place?- “Upgrade to Windows XP or 2003. This costs much money in
licenses, and you may need to upgrade your hardware as well. Plus
you’ll have a whole new set of bugs and security holes to get
acquainted with. However, this also gives you Active Directory,
which may be something you want to move up to.- “Replace your NT4 box with a Samba 3 domain controller.
“This series is about option 3…”
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