I tried this a week ago and afterward, none of the windows clients on our network would recognize "admin users" (Domain admins) as actual Administrators. It could have been because of differences in user and machine accounts (/etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow* are probably really important in this regard), but even after quite a few hours of debugging, I still couldn't get the windows clients to "trust" the PDC's admin users.
A better way to migrate/shift the PDC machine may be to transition to an LDAP backend rather than smbpasswd, and then setup the machine to be shifted to as a BDC. Then, after all is working with the LDAP-based PDC/BDC setup, decommission the PDC and shift the BDC into place.
Abe
anu bhaskar wrote:
hi,
i have a smba server working as pdc. users are managed using smbpasswd. i want to shift the server to a new machine (without changing any configuration). which all configuration files i have to copy to the new machine.
greetings,
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