Hi there. We've had a Samba (version 3.3) server acting as a primary domain controller for about 30 windows PC (XP, vista and 7) for a while. All nice and dandy there.
Samba is running on a FreeBSD 8 machine... I would like to migrate this service to a newly acquired Mac mini server , mainly in order to ease maintenance and creation of accounts. Something I like with the 10.6 server solution is that accounts are nicely integrated together, change your password once and it's all changed everywhere and all in LDAP . Now, is there a simple way to move the PDC from one machine to another so it remains fully transparent for users, and mainly they won't loose their account settings. If I was to use a tdbsam database, I guess I could simply backup/restore the whole thing, but as the new PDC would use LDAP, I'm guessing it won't be that simple. Having done this, is there an easy way to rename a domain, also so users keep their local account settings. Thanks Jean-Yves -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
