Is there a way to take users samba passwords from an old 2.x Samba server, and insert them into a new 3.x Samba server that using an LDAP backend? The new server is already populated with all users and groups in LDAP and is currently on a test network. All that is needed is the users samba passwords from the old server that is using the smbpasswd file.
If there aren't samba attributes in ldap you can use
pdbedit -i smbpasswd:<smbpasswd-file-path>
If there are already samba attributes this won't work.
What I did was:
- clean the ldap database (easy here since I was just testing)
- smbldap-populate -k 0 -a root
- obtain /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/samba/smbpasswd from the old machine
- remove all machine accounts, system groups and other users/groups you don't in ldap from all these files
at this point, if you have special characters (like, á, é, í, etc.) in your files, you'll have to make somewhat a cleaned-up copy, since the idealx tools don't work with non us-ascii characters
-temporarily add users in /etc/passwd of the new machine
-pdbedit -i smbpasswd:<smbpasswd-file>
-remove the users previously added to /etc/passwd
-smbldap-migrate-passwd -d account -a -P <your cleansed passwd file> -S <your shadow file>
-smbldap-migrate-group -a -G <your cleansed group file>
What I done may be totally wrong, YMMV, etc., but it seems it has worked fine so far.
Bye
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Luca Olivetti
Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/
Tel. +34 93 5883004 Fax +34 93 5883007
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