[Samba] Explorer/PDC

[ACEAlex]

Have a look at

/usr/local/samba/private/MACHINE.SID
It contains something like this
S-1-5-21-1322968179-877600808-2682796754
Isn't this the sid key?

/Alexander

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Elble" <s_elble at yahoo.com>
To: "Fridtjof Busse" <fridtjof.busse at gmx.de>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Explorer/PDC


> Fridtjof,
> 
> IIRC, it isn't enough to change your NetBIOS and
> hostname back to the original settings, because the
> NetBIOS name and hostname are essentially useless for
> the Windows Domain Security Model. The most important
> factor there would probably be the SID (security
> identifier), which also must be changed to the value
> of the original server, for the server to appear
> identical. Unfortunately, I can't recall which file
> contains this SID, at least in the 2.2.x versions of
> Samba. Can someone step in here?
> 
> BTW - I'm not positive this will fix your problem,
> but, at this point with 500 profiles, it's worth a
> shot.
> --- Fridtjof Busse <fridtjof.busse at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Monday, 1. April 2002 08:36, Sean Elble wrote:
> > > Fridtjof,
> > >
> > > My wild guess is that something in the profiles is
> > dependent on the
> > > server name, and this is what is causing the
> > crash. Is it possible to
> > > revert to the old server's name and security
> > identifier? This would
> > > seem to be the best solution to me, but only if
> > it's possible,
> > > naturally. (Please forgive me if I sound a little
> > off; 1:30 AM EST)
> > > Hope that helps.
> > 
> > Sorry, I didn't mention this: I already changed the
> > name back to the 
> > original PDC (netbios-name and hostname).
> > The only thing I didn't change is the IP address,
> > but I can't change 
> > this back, because it's already the address of the
> > old machine and now 
> > the gateway.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Fridtjof Busse
> > Why you can't find your system administrator:
> > Look better. He/She is probably in the basement
> > somewhere behind the 
> > modem racks. 
> > _finally_ took a day off. 
> > 
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> 
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