On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, I wrote:
Can anyone answer my original question, which is whether my original
strategy (use net rpc getsid without LDAP, but stop old PDC forever
before starting the new one) is sound?
After no one answered, last week I decided to just try it and see.
Except for the fact
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
You can override the machine name in smb.conf.
Taking the NetBIOS names out of sync with the DNS names would be even
worse in my view.
Can anyone answer my original question, which is whether my original
strategy (use net rpc getsid without LDAP, but
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
Is the new machine going to have the same IP address and machine name? I
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I'm aware of that possibility, and in some sense I've done that in the
past. But for this particular hop, I'd prefer to keep the IP and hostname
of the relief machine as
You can override the machine name in smb.conf.
So even tho the DNS name and IP address of the new machine is different
than the old machine, the Windows/Samba name of the new machines would
be that of the old machine.
But I haven't tried this myself.
On 06/18/2010 08:06 AM, Michael
Is the new machine going to have the same IP address and machine name? I
would think that in that case you should be able to copy the configuration
files, profile directories, private and locks directories over to the new
machine. You could copy all the samba stuff over to the new machine,
