[Samba] How to move a samba PDC to a diffrent box
Ivan Ordonez
iordonez at nature.berkeley.edu
Thu Jun 19 15:17:44 GMT 2008
Should this be set on smbldap.conf file? If I do the command as you
suggest, the machine's local SID is going to be the domain's SID. Is
that something I should do?
Thanks,
-Ivan
Bruno La Torre wrote:
>
>
> Ivan Ordonez ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> John Drescher wrote:
>>>> Sorry to bother you. I hope you can help me with my issue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Always cc to the list as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>> We have a domain with more than 100 users and we need to replace
>>>> our PDC.
>>>> The PDC main function is to authenticate our users to connect to
>>>> the shared
>>>> drive and to authenticate computer login. The PDC is running samba
>>>> with
>>>> openldap on Gentoo machine. I have two BDCs with ACL set to read
>>>> and write
>>>> only. It was set that way to make the syncing process easier. The
>>>> syncing
>>>> process is like a chain using slurpd. We plan to use "syncrepl"
>>>> later.
>>>>
>>>> What is the best way to do to replace the PDC? I already have a
>>>> Gentoo
>>>> machine up and running. I copied over all the samba and openldap
>>>> files from
>>>> the old PDC to this new machine. I also exported the database by
>>>> running
>>>> the "slapcat -l" command. I am hesitant to start the slapd, slurpd
>>>> and
>>>> samba service as I am not so sure if I am doing the right thing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Disconnect the network cable on the new machine to make sure you are
>>> not interfering with the rest of the network.
>>> Start slapd then use slapadd to add your ldap to the database. Use
>>> slapcat to verify that all was added and the ldif looks correct. Then
>>> start samba and see if the smbclient can connect to itself.
>>>
>>> Is the old machine the same name as the new? How about the ipddress?
>>> Are you using wins, lmhosts or dns for your clinets to find the pdc?
>>>
>> I will try your suggestion. We plan on using the same name on the
>> new machine and the same IP address as well. We are using WINS for
>> our client to find the PDC.
>
>
> you must set on the new PDC the SID of the old PDC
> see "net getlocalsid" and "net setlocalsid"
>
> bruno
>
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