migrate NT4 -> Samba 3 + LDAP

Roland Gruber gruberr at in.tum.de
Mon Aug 18 13:13:21 GMT 2003


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Ignacio Coupeau wrote:
| Roland Gruber wrote:
|
|> Hi all,
|>
|> I need to migrate a NT4 domain server to Samba 3 with OpenLDAP.
|> Unfortunately "net rpc vampire" did not work, no accounts were migrated.
|>
|> So I decided to migrate them manually with the data from "net rpc
|> samdump". The dump shows odd and even user RIDs. Is it possible to put
|> them directly in LDAP? They do not follow this calculation with rid =
|> uid * 2 + 1000.
|> Or do I have to change the RID numbers?
|
|
| if you are in a hurry perhaps the bin/smbpasswd -a <user> <passwd>
| may help. The smbpasswd takes the uid/gidNumber and makes the rid.
|
| also the examples/LDAP directory provide some scripts.

My problem is not the creation of users but having the same RID numbers
for Samba as for NT4. Otherwise there will be problems if Samba acts as PDC.
The question is if Samba depends on this special RID calculation or not.

|
| ignacio
|

Greetings,
Roland
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