On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 23:26 +0100, Marco De Vitis wrote: > On 05/03/2007 14:23, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: > > > That's a little bit of a "hard guess". Windows can be an > > wild environment, and profiles can be even wilder. :-) > > I know, I know ;). > > >> PS: actually, I suppose I could simple delete both Linux and Samba users > >> and create them again, as long as I know their passwords or inform the > >> "human" users that they have to enter a new password... but what happens > >> to their roaming profiles? Are they completely lost? Can't I reuse them > >> by just changing file ownerships? > > > > There is a great chance that with new sid the workstation > > will create a new profile, isn't anything in the Samba Official > > HOWTO (Desktop Profile Management Chapter) about this? > > No, as far as I can tell this situation is not covered there; it talks > about migrating profiles from a NT PDC, which is somehow different, and > I'm missing the pieces to link it all together.
You are missing the fact it is the same thing :-) > Anyway I see mention of a "profiles" Samba tool which might be useful: > it changes all occurrences of a SID in a NT registry file. But I > strongly fear it could break something; it also only appears to support > NT, which probably means you're in for a headache if you use it on XP > profiles. profiles are the same on all machines the registry format has not change afaik. > Anyway, I could avoid touching the SID, if I can make the Samba users > keep their SIDs while changing their Linux UIDs. > This is the first piece I'm missing: what is the link between Samba > users and Linux UIDs? What happens if I only change the UIDs? Can't I > just change some references to them in the Samba database? > > PS: uhm, I now also noticed that the pdbedit command has -G and -U > arguments which should be able to change the user/group SID for a > user... If the only problem is the new SID, then maybe I could simply > set it like the old one this way. Why can't you just keep your original tdbsam/ldap database of users, alogn with your PDC name and the secrets.tdb file ? 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