Renaming a PDC hostname/domain remotely

[John H Terpstra]

On Saturday 16 July 2005 16:54, Anthony Chavez wrote:
> I apologize for the crosspost, but I seem to think that samba-technical@
> is a more suitable list than samba@ for this subject....

I am interpreting this email as either of:

	a) My email did not serve you well

OR

	b) You have not seen it yet.


I pointed you at the official documentation. I asked you to contact me if it 
did not answer your needs.

Yes. The Samba domain SID is derived from the workgroup (domain) name.

Workstations only care about the domain SID. The document I pointed you 
towards explains in detail how to migrate systems, and/or change the domain 
name.

Please let me know if any of the documentation is insufficient. I want to be 
certain that our documentation is more than adequate to serve the needs of 
our users.

Samba-Technical is NOT the right place to ask this type of question. 
Samba-Technical is solely for discussion of developmental issues and proven 
significant technical problems.

You asked on IRC #samba (you were gone before I could answer you), and you 
asked on the Samba mailing list. I did respond - I hope that was appropriate.

Cheers,
John T.

>
> -------------------- Start of forwarded message --------------------
> From: Anthony Chavez <acc at anthonychavez.org>
> Subject: Re: Renaming a PDC hostname/domain remotely
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:21:27 -0600
> X-Original-To: samba at lists.samba.org
>
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:15:55 -0600 Anthony Chavez <acc at anthonychavez.org> 
wrote:
> > Assuming they exist, could someone point me to any resources that could
> > assist me in renaming a Samba PDC's hostname and the domain it serves
> > remotely *without* forcing the client workstations to have to
> > manually-rejoin?
>
> Along those lines, does Samba generate a domain SID based on the name of
> that domain?  Or could I rename the domain by manually changing the name
> but retaining the SID?  And if I'm using passdb backend = tdbsam, in
> which files would I need to do this?
>
> > If such things do not exist, 1) what effects should I expect in
> > undertaking such an action, and 2) is there a standard procedure for the
> > steps that I should take on the workstations to make the effort go as
> > smoothly as possible?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------

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