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Accessing files located on a Windows Active Directory network share from your Linux machine is easy via Samba (and probably NFS, which I’ve never tried). However, trying to use Open Office applications such as Writer or Calc to open these files will likely fail. OO apps will start up and then die silently. That’s why it’s usually necessary to mount the shared drive with a command such as this: 
sudo mkdir /media/mynetworkserverc
sudo mount -t cifs //mynetworkserver/c /media/mynetworkserverc -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

The entire relocation process is described in this TechNet article: http://207.46.196.114/WindowsServer/en/library/af6646aa-2360-46e4-81ca-d51707bf01eb1033.mspx?mfr=true, the core for moving to local drives: http://207.46.196.114/WindowsServer/en/library/af6646aa-2360-46e4-81ca-d51707bf01eb1033.mspx?mfr=true and for network drives: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/dd498633-5d65-4a14-b68d-edcb85fada651033.mspx

Once you have completed the preparation of your target volumes and restarted in Directory Services Restore Mode, it’s quite easy with a few ntdsutil commands, so there is usually no need to reinstall and reconfigure Active Directory using dcpromo. This article discusses the volume configuration of Active Directory files and folders and here are the Active Directory best practices.