> I am looking to move our current Samba primary domain controller to a new > machine. The current machine is EOL, running Fedora 11 (old), and had way too > many services on it to start with (mail, dns, samba, mysql replication, > primary ldap, etc). I am looking to move to a Xen domu with either Fedora 13 > or Centos 5.5. What my question is is this: > what should I look for when I migrate the samba install to the new machine. > > We use OpenLDAP backend for authentication if that matters for anything. I > will most likely keep the machine name the same but will change the IP. I > know in the other servers that we have that rely on this one as the PDC I > will need to change every reference of its IP address. But I am making sure > there is not any "gotcha" deals. > --
If you use openldap. I suggest you keep the old, add the new as A BDC (replicating the openldap) then test the configuration and only after testing pull the old box and make the new a PDC. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
