Yes Buchan have right best choice is upgrade on old 8.1 to samba 2.2.7 and then transfer all to preinstaled 9.0.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Buchan Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marian Mlcoch, Ing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chris Nolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba-to-samba migration > > Message: 1 > > From: "Marian Mlcoch, Ing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Chris Nolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba-to-samba migration > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:30:44 +0100 > > Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?TSMP=2C_a.s._Presov?= > > > > Try read help on samba swat home page on your 2.2.7 swat www or howto htmls. > > ***How To Configure Samba as a Backup Domain Controller for a Samba PDC*** > > But this is only for login good choice, for storing files is problem with > > change home directories to another server when PDC dies... > > > > For first Q about migration i must say that is not simply. Best setup is > > teoretical downgrade samba on new 9.0 to eq version 2.2.2 then copy all > > config and db files and then upgrade to 2.2.7a. > > May be better (since there are 2.2.7 RPMs for 8.1 on the samba ftp > mirrors) to upgrade the 8.1 box to 2.2.7 first, and ensure that's > working fine, then migrate it to 9.0 while keeping the samba version the > same. > > > You can try without this but not copy tdb files only overwrite smb.conf and > > smbpasswd plus recreate acounts from passwd 8.1. Plus transfer SIDs of > > machine and domain as is write in uplisted howto. > > > > Well, 2.2.7 stores the domain SID in secrets.tdb, so it would be > essential to take the secrets.tdb. Of course, you should still have a > .SID file for 2.2.2 which you should backup, and 2.2.7 is supposed to be > able to import a .SID file if it finds one ... > > But, if you want to run 2.2.2 on Mandrake 9.0 you're on your own ... > > Buchan > > -- > |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| > Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager > Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 > Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za > GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc > 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba