[Samba] [Please help] Domain migration

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Aurelien Requiem wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Here is my problem. I have a PDC samba on a server and i need to move it
> onto another server. I have tried copy all files /etc/samba/private to
> my new server but it doesn't seems to work :-( What's wrong ? Is there a
> special procedure or a limitation to achieve this ?

Did you change the name ?  This will cause a new domain SID to be 
generated (either domain name or netbios name of the server).  Best to 
bring up the new server as a Samba BDC and set the domain sid using 
smbpasswd -S.




cheers, jerry
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