[Samba] File server migration ( win2k to samba on redhat 7.2 )

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Sreedharan, Anil" wrote:
> 
> Hello People,
> 
> We are in the process of migrating our file server from a win2k box to a red
> hat box running samba 2.2.3a. We have winbind running on the redhat box and
> it has joined the windows domain and "genent" shows all the domain users.We
> know have to move the files from the win2k box to linux box and maintain the
> file ownership info. It would be great if anyone can point me to resources
> that might help us .

You might want to look into doing a 'move' or an 'xcopy /o' from the
existing server to the new one, while sitting at the old Win2k server. 
This will preserve the ownership stuff (I hope), givin a suitable
filesystem.  (You need a patched kernel of one kind or another).  I
think there were some bugs in Samba in this area, you may wish to use
current 2.2 CVS if issues arise.

Andrew Bartlett

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