[clug] How to migrate to Samba4 with samba-tool

Alex Ferrara alex at receptiveit.com.au
Sun Jul 28 15:47:52 MDT 2013


I think "samba3upgrade" should be "classicupgrade"

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On 25/07/2013, at 6:57 PM, ArthyD <arthur.dupont at esial.net> wrote:

> Hello, 
> There are too few topics about migration using samba-tool, and many of them
> are unclear to me.  
> I would like some explanations about the way to use those tools.
> 
> *First let me explain my case: *
> I have an old Samba3 server (without lapd) on Fedora 11 that i would like to
> migrate to a Samba 4 on fedora 18.
> The new server is on a new machine and I'd rather not stop it until the new
> one is ready.
> 
> *What I've done:*
> I've heard that the best way to migrate samba is to use samba-tool.
> So after having migrated linux account I copied Samba3 directories (
> /etc/samba/* and /var/lib/samba/* ) on the new server ( /root/samba3 )
> 
> So I did:
> samba-tool domain samba3upgrade --dbdir=/root/samba3/ --use-xattrs=yes
> --realm=SAMBA-TEST /root/samba3/smb.conf
> 
> But It didn't work, *do anyone can tell me if I miss a step, or if my
> command is wrong?*
> 
> PS: users and groups IDs has changed since Fedora 15 (from >500 to >1000) so
> i have to modify uid and gid.
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> AD
> 
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