Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-16 Thread Hubert Choma
Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com writes: Hello Thanks for help Gaiseric Probably you misunderstood me Gaiseric. I put 3 ware controller with new disks to test machine (gigabyte mobo). I have installed Cenots with samba on raid 5 on this controller and I want to move this discs

Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-16 Thread Hubert Choma
John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com writes: -  Don't use RAID5 for your /boot or OS slices.      If your raid configuration gets messed up the system can't boot.   A messed up mirror is easier to recover from.  RAID5 for your data is OK-  since at that point the OS is up and running.  

Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-16 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, Am 15.06.10 11:56, schrieb Hubert Choma: Hello ... - Whether the version of samba in Centos 5.5 is compatible with windows 7 (standard centos 5.5 repos) http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Release_Notes/ar01s08.html Topic Samba: The Samba3x package set

Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-16 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Am 16.06.10 10:33, schrieb Hubert Choma: Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com writes: ... - Where can I find changes beetwen samba Version 3.0.28a-1.fc7 and this from centos 5.5 repo ? e.g. Download the rpm and do a rpm -qp --changelog PackageName.rpm |more /Götz -- Götz

Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-16 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
If you are moving the RAID controller with the disks then it should be OK. And in that case using RAID5 should be OK for /boot. You can also, with the 3ware, configure all the disks in a single RAID5 (or maybe RAID5+1 or RAID6), and then use 3ware to create two separate LUN's (logical

Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-16 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Am 16.06.10 16:05, schrieb Gaiseric Vandal: ... I do not think ext4 is available on Centos. The tools and kernelmodule are availabel, if it works I don't know ... http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Technical_Notes/chap-Technical_Notes-_Technology_Previews_.html

[Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-15 Thread Hubert Choma
Hello I need a description how to move painlessly samba from one system to another without re-adding to the domain windows clients. Currently, I have samba Version 3.0.28a-1.fc7 on Fedora 7 and I want to move it on CentOS 5.5 As far as the server hardware remains the same. In addition to

Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-15 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
You may have two general options - Have the new machine appear to be the old machine.Run testparm -v to verify the location of the private directory, locks directory etc and other files that you need to move over. - Setup the new machine as a BDC in the domain, migrate your data over,

Re: [Samba] samba migration to another llinux distro

2010-06-15 Thread John Drescher
-  Don't use RAID5 for your /boot or OS slices.      If your raid configuration gets messed up the system can't boot.   A messed up mirror is easier to recover from.  RAID5 for your data is OK-  since at that point the OS is up and running.     Some of my colleagues argue you shouldn't even