[Samba] Upgrading Samba

[Steve Wolfe]

  Perfect!  On the test server, I just upgraded, did 'pdbedit -i smbpasswd
-e tdbsam', and everything seems to have worked.  Thank you very much.

steve

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
<gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 05/24/2010 04:46 PM, Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
>> I have a fairly old Samba server, 3.0.25, on CentOS 4.8.  I'd like to
>> update
>> it to something more modern, so I grabbed the "Enterprise Samba" 3.5 RPMs
>> for RHEL, and went to work on a test machine.
>>
>> After upgrading via "rpm -U ./*.rpm", starting nmbd and smbd, I can no
>> longer log in to the domain, I get:
>>
>> netlogon_creds_server_check failed. Rejecting auth request from client
>> FREESCALE machine account FREESCALE$
>>
>> While /etc/samba/smbpasswd remains seemingly untouched from the upgrade, I
>> have to delete and recreate each account before it will let me log in to
>> the
>> domain.
>>
>> Since there are about a hundred workstations (and more accounts), I'd like
>> to make this a more seamless transition... any tips for a newb?
>>
>>
>
> I am guessing that smbpasswd is not in the TDB format supported by Samba
> 3.5.    I think the older format got dropped along the way.
>
> Are the user accounts OK?  You could prob use "pdbedit -w" (from the old
> version)  to dump the  accounts to a text file.   And then maybe write a
> script (perl has a nice split command) to parse the file into a list of
> machine names.  And then run something like
>    for i in `cat thelist.txt` do
>    smbpasswd -x $i
>    smbpaswd -m -a $i
>    done
>
>
>
> The other option may be to use pdbedit  to dump the passwd to a text or TDB
> file, backup /etc/smbpasswd and then use pdbedit (to reimport the accounts.
>
>
>
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