upgrade reference

Ricky Nance ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us
Fri Jan 13 07:46:48 MST 2012


Here is my samba 3 config
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPSrN0usK24RXQgAHqxvwFMwNdafmy6zvX7z8nTGxYk/edit
and my samba 4 config
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iEEgdu4MujMqw-aKX9v1qup7yUxpNz_aVeyqsFBt-BE/edit
Hope it helps.

RiX

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:20 PM, ssureshot <ssureshot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I completely understand, that will probably be a large difference but it
> will also give me the chance to audit permissions so that may be a good
> thing... I'm assuming that the shares are defined with the default,
> something like the auto created netlogon dir.. then acl's take over.. feel
> free to post the largest share difference I'd like to see it just to make
> sure..
>
>
> On 01/12/2012 05:38 PM, Ricky Nance wrote:
>
>> I don't know if I can explain this, but I will to the best of my
>> knowledge, anyone else reading this please chime in if I am wrong or leave
>> something out.  The best way I can explain it is, all of the options you
>> have in your current smb.conf are replaced on samba 4 by xattributes
>> (acls?). That being said, you basically create the share with 2 or 3 lines,
>> and change all the settings via the windows 'Security Settings' tab. There
>> will be quite a bit of tweaking in some instances. If you'd like I can post
>> my old and new config files so you can see the difference.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2012 7:24 AM, "Aaron E." <ssureshot at gmail.com <mailto:
>> ssureshot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Ah IC,, that shouldn't be too big an issue, we use an include for
>>    our shares so it's all nice and neat. but Ill need to test all
>>    that with the special options that we have in place.. allowed
>>    users and such.. verify that all the options function and if not
>>    resolve
>>
>>
>>    On 01/11/2012 08:52 PM, Ricky Nance wrote:
>>
>>        I should have been more specific on that, the share directives
>>        will have to
>>        be manually copied from the samba 3 smb.conf to samba 4
>>        smb.conf. From what
>>        I have seen, (on my own install) all my shares defaulted to
>>        read only =yes,
>>        I added read only = no to each share, though I am sure it
>>        would work inside
>>        the [global] section and take care of all the shares (someone
>>        correct this
>>        if its not right).
>>
>>        On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Charles
>>        Tryon<charles.tryon at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:charles.tryon at gmail.**com <charles.tryon at gmail.com>
>> >>wrote:
>>
>>
>>            I'm actually planning on moving my shares to a FreeNAS
>>            box.  Essentially
>>            that's running a Samba3 server joined to the Sanba4
>>            domain.  FreeNAS just
>>            puts a nice GUI on the front of it.
>>
>>
>>            On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ricky Nance<
>>            ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.**us<ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us>
>>            <mailto:ricky.nance at weaubleau.**k12.mo.us<ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us>>>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>                It should also be noted that all your shares will need
>>                to be migrated
>>                manually, and a lot of your old share options will not
>>                work. samba-tool
>>                testparm should be helpful at that point.
>>
>>                On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Ricky Nance<
>>                ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.**us<ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us>
>>                <mailto:ricky.nance at weaubleau.**k12.mo.us<ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us>>>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>                    It needs to be on the same machine, when you issue
>>                    samba-tool domain
>>                    samba3upgrade --dbdir=/var/lib/samba
>>                    --targetdir=/usr/local/samba
>>                    /etc/samba/smb.conf the dbdir is the old s3 files,
>>                    the target dir is
>>                    where it should put the s4 database, and finally
>>                    you have your old s3
>>                    smb.conf file. Unless you want to see a BUNCH of
>>                    output make sure
>>
>>                logging
>>
>>                    is off in your s3 config.
>>
>>
>>                    On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Aaron
>>                    E.<ssureshot at gmail.com
>>                    <mailto:ssureshot at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>                        Charles,
>>
>>                        I am running debian based flavor. I have
>>                        samba4 / bind 9.8 build on my
>>                        test box working with a new provision which
>>                        Ill blow away..
>>
>>                        Can it pull the information through a network
>>                        or does everything have
>>
>>                to
>>
>>                        be installed on the same server?
>>
>>                        Essentialy all I would need to do is get ldap
>>                        and samba functioning and
>>                        restore the database from my production box.
>>                        Which shouldn't take too
>>
>>                long
>>
>>                        but I would rather not have to install what I
>>                        won't need. I'm anal
>>                        retentive when it comes to installed packages
>>                        in production..
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                        On 01/11/2012 02:47 PM, Charles Tryon wrote:
>>
>>                            I've had some success doing some test
>>                            migrations, though I don't have
>>
>>                all
>>
>>                            my pieces put together yet.
>>
>>                            Are you running on a Debian based system
>>                            or a Red Hat (CentOS, Fedora,
>>                            etc)
>>                            based system?  There are obviously some
>>                            package differences, as well
>>
>>                as
>>
>>                            startup script differences.
>>
>>                            I am actually trying to do the conversion
>>                            from one server to another,
>>                            which
>>                            presents some different challenges.  For
>>                            one thing, I still have a
>>
>>                load
>>
>>                            of
>>                            other services on the old server that I
>>                            can't get rid of right away.
>>                             Also,
>>                            that box is pretty suck on packages from
>>                            several years ago, which is
>>
>>                why
>>
>>                            it's still running Samba 3.0.9!!
>>
>>                            In my case, I do NOT have an LDAP server,
>>                            so I am pulling from a tdb
>>                            database for my users.  I wouldn't say
>>                            this is better or worse than
>>
>>                LDAP,
>>
>>                            but it does mean you do things a little
>>                            differently.
>>
>>                            I've found that I can copy my /etc/samba
>>                            and /usr/lib/samba
>>
>>                directories
>>
>>                            from my production server to the new test
>>                            server and then run the
>>                            conversion.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                            On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Aaron
>>                            E.<ssureshot at gmail.com
>>                            <mailto:ssureshot at gmail.com>>
>>
>>
>>                 wrote:
>>
>>
>>                             I'm finally getting back to some testing
>>                            now that EOY is over. The
>>
>>                last
>>
>>                                I
>>                                worked with upgrade testing was
>>                                running the myldap.py upgrade
>>
>>                script, I
>>
>>                                have seen that the samba-tool can now
>>                                provide an upgrade path and I'd
>>                                like
>>                                to run some tests.
>>
>>                                I'm looking for information to read up
>>                                on using this tool.
>>
>>                                I currently have an s3 domain with an
>>                                openldap backend. When I run
>>                                samba-tool ? I don't seem to see
>>                                anything relevant to an upgrade.
>>
>>                This
>>
>>                                is
>>                                the latest git as of a week ago.
>>
>>                                Any reading material is greatly
>>                                appriciated along with examples if
>>
>>                you
>>
>>                                have them.
>>
>>                                Thanks
>>                                Aaron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                    --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>            --
>>                Charles Tryon
>>            ______________________________**______________________________
>> **_____________
>>                  "It's the job that's never started that takes
>>            longest to finish."
>>                                             -- Samwise Gamgee
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>        --
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