Re: [Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom needed

2004-09-22 Thread John H Terpstra
Kent, Thank you for documenting this for the benefit of samba users. I am wondering, would you mind documenting your configuration further for inclusion as a chapter, or addition to a chapter, in the Samba-Guide? I'd encourage you to do so as it adds significantly to the knowledge bank for thos

Re: [Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom needed

2004-09-22 Thread kent
Hello, I ran into this problem in the past but have since resolved group issues. First of all I am currently using: RedHat 8.0 OpenLDAP 2.1.30 Berkeley DB 4.2.52 LDAP backend Samba 3.0.0 (1) PDC (5) BDC many, (1) master OpenLDAP (6) slave OpenLDAP These reside in different buildings around

Re: [Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom needed

2004-09-22 Thread DA Forsyth
On 21 Sep 2004 , Misty Stanley-Jones entreated about "[Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom": } Has anybody done such a thing as this? I'm looking to make this } transition as smooth as possible. I have the new fileserver up and I'm busy replacing a Netware 3.12 box with FreeBS

Re: [Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom needed

2004-09-21 Thread kent
Hello, I didn't think that Novell 4.11 used LDAP but could be wrong. Later versions use LDAP with their schema extensions. I went from Novell 5.1 to Samba 3.0.0. I moved users a little at a time removing the Novell client from client machines and reconfiguring networking. Since I am with a school s

[Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom needed

2004-09-21 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
Has anybody done such a thing as this? I'm looking to make this transition as smooth as possible. I have the new fileserver up and running, and I'm using rsync to keep the Novell data current on the Samba server. Any words of advice on transferring the users and groups and permissions over to