[Samba] HOWTO: name change of Samba PDC

[Rainer Hubovsky]

Hi there!

I once had the problem of not being able to log on to the domain after
changing the name of my Samba server as described in the
documentation. But it was only in a test environment.

Now I have to change the name of a Samba PDC in a real environment and
I am not sure what to do to avoid this problem

In the docs for Samba 2.2 it says that one should restore the file
private/WORKROUP.SID, but although running 2.2.7 I couldn't find this
file.

The Samba 3.0 docs say that the SID is stored in secrets.tdb and could
be get with "net getlocalsid.." and set with a similar
command. Running 2.2.7, I do have /etc/secrets.tdb but no command
"net".

Just a few minutes ago, I tried a name change with 2.2.7 and had no
problems.

What I am supposed to do?
Under which Samba version this could be a problem and how can this be
avoided?

Thanks a lot.

Best regards,
 +r

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