[Samba] Migrating from TNG to 2.2

[Andrew Bartlett]

Martin Hermanowski wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> is there a HOWTO about migrating from Samba TNG to Samba 2.2?
> 
> I have problems with the user profiles on the Windows client machines,
> they are recreated on login on the new Samba (2.2.5) machine. I copied
> the SID (with smbpasswd), /etc/passwd and smbpasswd to the new machine,
> and everything works fine, except for the user profiles.

It may well be becouse the user's RID changed.  Samba-TNG uses a
different RID caluation algorithm.  You could either update Samba 2.2 to
match, or use Samba 3.0alpha (aka Samba HEAD), and specify the RIDs in
LDAP.  (You would also need to set 'algorithmic rid base = some big
number' to avoid clashes between groups/unix users and these users).

Andrew Bartlett

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