Mike, Your request has been noted. As soon as I get a moment I will add appropriate notes to the Samba-HOWTO-Collection and I may add another chapter on Samba to Samba migration in the Samba-Guide.
Cheers, John T. On Friday 01 April 2005 07:01, Mike Rambo wrote: > One topic I can't find in either Samba 3 by Example or the Offical Samba > 3 Howto & Reference Guide is that of migrating from a Samba3 server to a > newer Samba 3 server (meaning newer hardware in this case). > > We are currently using the smbpasswd backend. I plan to move to tdbsam > but that hasn't been done yet. All of the servers in question are > running either whitebox 3 or redhat 9 (if it matters) and Samba 3.0.4. > Our primary migration goal is to not have to touch all the 2000 > workstations to rejoin them to the domain. > > I have messed around with manually merging /etc/group, /etc/passwd, > /etc/shadow, /etc/samba/smbpasswd and copying /etc/samba/secrets.tdb > from the old to the new server and have been able to make this work > (once at least so far - I'm still experimenting) but would like to use > better methods for the migration. > > I like 'net rpc vampire' on NT4 but that to my surprise doesn't seem to > work against a Samba PDC and if it is addressed in a Samba to Samba > context in either book I couldn't find it. I'm going to experiment in a > little while with converting to tdbsam first but it occured to me that > someone out there might be able to cut down on the time I have to spend > experimenting if I just ask. > > Anyone done this before? > > > -- > Mike Rambo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end > of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
