On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:21 -0600, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks for the link. > > How does this look? > > OLDSERVER: > Stop Samba. > Backup smb.conf, smbpasswd, passdb.tdb and secrets.tdb from /etc/samba > Backup *.tdb from /var/lib/samba > Make note of the users/groups UID/GIDs > > NEWSERVER: > Power up server > Change hostname to OLDSERVER > Install latest Samba > recreate users/groups with same UID/GID as the old server > restore backed up files (smb.conf, smbpasswd, passdb.tdb and secrets.tdb > from /etc/samba and *.tdb from /var/lib/samba) > Recreate shared directories > Run testparm > Start Samba > Check domain SID is the same as the old one
Seem pretty much all you need to do. > Does that handle all the group mappings? I guess they're in the tdb > files? group_mapping.tdb > The old server is Suse and the new server will be debian, for what it's > worth. Some paths change between distribution, be sure you put the tdb files in the right places for Debian. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba