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At the moment, I have a Dell PowerEdge 600sc running RedHat 8.0. I am
using it as a PDC, running samba 2.2.7-security-rollup-fix, with the
users' home directories mapped as network drives.

I have setup Ubuntu 5.10 server on a Dell PowerEdge SC420. Its samba
version is 3.0.14a-6ubuntu.

I am looking for a way to replace the PowerEdge 600sc with the
PowerEdge SC420, making the SC420 the PDC. I would then ideally like
to install Ubuntu 5.10 server onto the PowerEdge 600sc and migrate
Samba back over to the 600sc.

I want the migration to be seamless, so that none of the workgroup
computers need to rejoin the domain.

I haven't had much luck finding explicit instructions for migrating
samba to different servers, most of the information I have found talks
about migrating Windows NT 4.0 to Samba 3.0 [or 2.2].

Can anyone direct me towards such instructions?

These are the steps I was thinking of taking:

1) Copy /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group from RedHat 8.0 to Ubuntu 5.10.
2) Create needed home directories, and give them the proper permissions.
3) Copy contents of /etc/samba/ from RedHat 8.0 to Ubuntu 5.10, and
get samba working.

Steps 1 and 2 shouldn't be a problem, but I am not sure how to do step
3. Would it make sense to follow the instructions for migrating a
Windows NT 4.0 server to samba 3.0 (as found here
<http://samba.vernstok.nl/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#NT4Migration>)?

Are there better instructions, geared specifically towards migrating
samba servers?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Menachem


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