What I noticed while I migrated to a VM Centos 5.5 from a real machine. Be aware to not use the pdc as time server. I never succeeded to make this work. Meanwhile I am back to a real machine. IN my oppinion VM in this case is nuts
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:03:11 +0400, "henri" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all (and best wishes for the new year to everyone :-) ) > > > > I have currently a Samba 3.5.6 server that acts as a PDC and print Server, > with tdbsam backend, no LDAP at all. > > > > In a very next future, I will have to migrate samba to a new server (a VM > actually). > > This migration will have to be seamless for all users (more than 200 user > accounts with more than 200 PC in the domain). > > > > The technical constraints will be : > > - migration from Readhat 9.0 to Centos 5.5 > > - the DNS name of the new server will change > > - the IP address of the new server will change (but still in the same > network) > > - the samba server netbios name (which is currently the same as the machine > DNS name) will have to be changed > > - everything else should remain the same : domain name , shares, home > directory, domain admin account, ... , the netlogon scripts can be adapted > if necessary > > > > My objectives are that after migration : > > 1) All PC that are currently joined to the domain will stay in the domain > > 2) All users will keep their SID and thus their original sessions on their > PC > > > > What is the best way to proceed ? > > I guess that just moving all the samba configuration files to the new > machine will not be enough. > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Henri -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
