[Samba] Migrating from Samba 2.2 smbpasswd to Samba 3 LDAP

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Oct 7 13:20:35 GMT 2003


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Tom Hibbert wrote:
| Hi there,
|
| Does anyone have any experience with this? I was wondering about importing
| data from a Samba 2.2 smbpasswd file to a Samba 2.2 style LDAP and then
| using some perl scripting to update the schemas to samba 3.

There is already a conversion script.  See

~   examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount

| However there isnt really much info about migrating user
| data and stuff from smbpasswd to LDAP at all.. Somewhere
| there must be a nice howto or something ;)

See the pdbedit manpage for exporting and importing
databases.





cheers, jerry
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