[Samba] Moving Samba installation from one host to another

[MH - Entwicklung]

Dear René,

thanks for your answer. I see I should have asked this before I moved Samba. But now I know better for the next time :-)


Regards
Manfred

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R.Nieuwenhuizen" <R.Nieuwenhuizen at cpb.nl>
To: "MH - Entwicklung" <entwicklung at heubach-edv.de>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Moving Samba installation from one host to another


> You forgot to to transfer your domain-SID to the new samba-server.
> 
> This can be done by running rpcclient on the old samba-server and run 
> the "lsaquery" command. This will output the domain-SID. Next you copy 
> and paste this in to a file called "MACHINE.SID" on the new server (this 
> file should be placed in the private subdir where secrets.tdb is 
> located) and remove the secrets.tdb file. If samba is restarted the 
> domain-SID (from MACHINE.SID) is imported into the secrets.tdb.
> 
> At last you should transport the smbpasswd file (located in the private 
> subdir) from the old samba-server to the new samba-server.
> 
> Things should now be up and running fine...
> 
> MH - Entwicklung wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >last week I experienced some problems when moving a Samba installation from one host to another host.
> >
> >The old system ran Samba 2.2.8 on a SuSE Linux 7.3
> >The new system is also running Samba 2.2.8 but on Debian Woody 
> >The Client Systems are all running Win2K SP1. One is running Win2K SP2. One is running Win98.
> >
> >I moved smbpasswd to the new host. I also made sure that all entries in passwd, group and shadow existed on the new system. Anyway all computers lost the connection to the Domain when switching to the new Samba PDC. I had to remove all hosts from the domain and let them join the domain again in order to get it working again. Also all Windows SIDS associated with the users had changed.
> >
> >Any idea what I've done wrong ?
> >
> >Regards
> >Manfred
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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