Thank you Dale.
Actually I did this by importing smbpasswd with
pdbedit -i smbpasswd:smbpasswd
And it works in the sense that my users can map a drive with their same
credentials.
But I have something else to consider.
The old server was a domain master and so I have some win XP machines
that login to it and there is a netlogin.bat etc.
Given that all of the user password and machine passwords are now
imported I wonder if that will continue to work when I switch over.
If anyone has any insight on this I would appreciate it.
I will be performing a test switch over on Monday at noon
Guelph,ON,Canada time.
Bill
On 05/07/2012 02:35 PM, Dale Schroeder wrote:
On 05/06/2012 10:14 AM, Bill Szkotnicki wrote:
Hi,
I want to transfer all of my users from an older version of samba to
a new one here.
The old version is 3.0.28 and the file with user passwords
is /etc/samba/smbpasswd
and the new version is 3.6.5 and there does not seem to be that file
anymore.
I think the user info is now in
/var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb
/var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb
My question is how to transport my users to my new system?
i.e. How to convert
/etc/samba/smbpasswd ------> /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Bill
Bill,
The smbpasswd backend is still available; it's just no longer the
default. You must explicitly state "passdb backend = smbpasswd" in
smb.conf.
To convert, copy the smbpasswd file from the old machine to the new
one, then follow the example in the Samba HowTo under "Account
Import/Export" found at
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html#pdbeditthing
Good luck.
Dale
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