Ed Ravin wrote:
>We just migrated a small network from a Win2K PDC to Samba, using >"net rpc vampire" into a tdbsam backend on a Samba 3.0.2a Linux box. > >One of the users, let's call him Jon Harker, had the NT username "JHarker". >When we ran "pdbedit -v jharker", we saw this: > > Unix username: JHarker > NT username: JHarker > >Well, that looks wrong - the NT username can be mixed case for all I care, >but shouldn't the Unix name be all lower case? > >We changed jharker's /etc/passwd entry to "JHarker" and he was subsequently >able to login. Since we didn't like that as a fix, we changed /etc/passwd >back to all lower case and carefully edited the passdb.tdb in emacs (the >binary editor of choice on Unix systems :-) to knock the mixed-case usernames >into lower case, which also fixed the problem. > >Both of these users already had accounts (all lower case) in /etc/passwd >before we ran "net rpc vampire". > >Other than this, the vampire process ran very smoothly. > > -- Ed > > Interesting. I remember have case sensitivity problems ( among others ) when using 'net rpc vampire' with 3.0.1-rc-something. Actually I had such a hard time that I decided to hold off until the process went a little smoother. Yeah I also remember hand-editing /etc/passwd entries ( sometimes unsucessfully - I rooted some guy's account good ! ). Have there been any bug fixes to the 'vampire' function since 3.0.1? While I understand the cause of the case sensitivity problems, I think this still needs more attention - perhaps all names should be forced to lower case? Lets just say that my previous experience didn't exactly inspire confidence in the system I was setting up - hence we are still on an NT4 domain controller.
Anyway, since someone else had a 'very smooth' experience, maybe I was partly to blame. I'll give it another go when I get more time.
The problem you refer to is not a 'net rpc vampire' issue. This is specifically an issue pertaining to the host operating system that Samba is running on.
In the Samba-HOWTO-Collection chapter on Migration I have provided a shell script that can be used to get around this OS problem. The script is in Example 12.1, called "smbgrpadd.sh". You can easily craft a similar script to handle addition of user accounts.
Please let me know if this is not an acceptable solution for you.
- John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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