Re: [Samba] transfer users after samba upgrade to new server
Thank you Dale. Actually I did this by importing smbpasswd with pdbedit -i smbpasswd:smbpasswd And it works in the sense that my users can map a drive with their same credentials. But I have something else to consider. The old server was a domain master and so I have some win XP machines that login to it and there is a netlogin.bat etc. Given that all of the user password and machine passwords are now imported I wonder if that will continue to work when I switch over. If anyone has any insight on this I would appreciate it. I will be performing a test switch over on Monday at noon Guelph,ON,Canada time. Bill On 05/07/2012 02:35 PM, Dale Schroeder wrote: On 05/06/2012 10:14 AM, Bill Szkotnicki wrote: Hi, I want to transfer all of my users from an older version of samba to a new one here. The old version is 3.0.28 and the file with user passwords is /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the new version is 3.6.5 and there does not seem to be that file anymore. I think the user info is now in /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb My question is how to transport my users to my new system? i.e. How to convert /etc/samba/smbpasswd --> /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Bill Bill, The smbpasswd backend is still available; it's just no longer the default. You must explicitly state "passdb backend = smbpasswd" in smb.conf. To convert, copy the smbpasswd file from the old machine to the new one, then follow the example in the Samba HowTo under "Account Import/Export" found at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html#pdbeditthing Good luck. Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] transfer users after samba upgrade to new server
On 05/06/2012 10:14 AM, Bill Szkotnicki wrote: Hi, I want to transfer all of my users from an older version of samba to a new one here. The old version is 3.0.28 and the file with user passwords is /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the new version is 3.6.5 and there does not seem to be that file anymore. I think the user info is now in /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb My question is how to transport my users to my new system? i.e. How to convert /etc/samba/smbpasswd --> /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Bill Bill, The smbpasswd backend is still available; it's just no longer the default. You must explicitly state "passdb backend = smbpasswd" in smb.conf. To convert, copy the smbpasswd file from the old machine to the new one, then follow the example in the Samba HowTo under "Account Import/Export" found at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html#pdbeditthing Good luck. Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] transfer users after samba upgrade to new server
Hi, I want to transfer all of my users from an older version of samba to a new one here. The old version is 3.0.28 and the file with user passwords is /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the new version is 3.6.5 and there does not seem to be that file anymore. I think the user info is now in /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb My question is how to transport my users to my new system? i.e. How to convert /etc/samba/smbpasswd --> /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
