reinstall server from scratch‏

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 08:37 +0000, somchay lavinski wrote:
> Last month I setup linux server to be a PDC and filesharing.
> The server  operating system is CENTOS + SAMBA + FDS (for authentication)
> Three Workstations: 2 Windows XP and 1 Windows 2000 Pro .I can join these machine to the domain without a problem.
> However I wonder if I reinstall server from scratch again,what will affect the Windows machine which already joined the domain. Do they have to be unjoined and rejoined the domain again?

You'll need to preserve the SAM (out of LDAP is easy,  use FDS' slapcat
equivalent).  And keep the domain sid and the secrets file;  but those
back after the reinstall.
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