Hi all,
I've read a few posts regarding experiences people have had migrating people to new domains.
Here's my situation/questions.
We're using 3rd party tools to handle sid copies etc between the 2 domains. I have all of my filers, except 2 currently joined to a top level domain - domain.com. The 2 remaining filers are joined to old.domain.com. We're in the process of moving all of our accounts to new.domain.com (which both sets of accounts work fine on the filers that are members of domain.com).
The changes are kind of 2 fold. I also will be changing my cifs shares to add in newdomain\groups under the cifs shares. This I believe is all I'd actually have to do to get the new domain accounts working on the existing shares.
The scarier part for me is changing the domain membership. From what I've read you run a "cifs terminate" followed by "cifs setup" on the filer, and then re-register the filer in the (new) domain. You might have to manually delete the old machine account from AD before running "cifs setup".
What does this really involve? I assume all cifs access is terminated during this? Does the netapp prompt for admin credentials and it registers itself as a member server in the new domain? What happens to existing cifs shares? Are they retained during the membership change? I ran a testdc and it can see all of the DC's for the new domain, so I don't think I'll have any problems.
Are there any other non-invasive ways of doing this?
Cheers,
-Derek