[Samba] Migrate Samba 3.0x tdb to Samba-3.0.2a ldapsam

[David Wilson]

Thanks Clint, greatly appreciated.
I'll give it a try.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clint Sharp" <clint at typhoon.org>
To: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Migrate Samba 3.0x tdb to Samba-3.0.2a ldapsam


> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 01:37, David Wilson wrote:
> > Hi guys/girls,
> >
> > How are you ?
> >
> > I'm looking at migrating my Samba-3.0.1 server which has the standard
tdb
> > backend to Samba-3.0.2a with an LDAP backend.
> > I plan to use nss_ldap too.
> >
> > What would be the best way of doing this ? Any assistance would be
greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Kindest regards
> > David Wilson
> >
> > D c D a t a
> > Tel +27 33 342 7003
> > Fax +27 33 345 4155
> > Cell +27 83 267 7500
> > http://www.dcdata.co.za
> > support at dcdata.co.za
> > sales at dcdata.co.za
> > KZN's first and only pure Linux solution provider
> > ____________________________________________________
> > LinuxBox S.A.: Africa's shell provider.
> > Powered by Linux and DcData - driven by passion !
> > http://www.linuxbox.co.za
>
> Make sure you have migrated the UNIX users to your LDAP backend.  PADL's
> migration scripts come in very handy here.  Then, you should be able to
> do something like:
>
> pdbedit -i tdbsam:<pathtotdb> -e ldapsam:ldap://<ldaphost>
>
> You should already have ldapsam in your passdb backend and have test
> accounts created and tested.  I think pdbedit might create posixAccount
> structures for the users if they're not there, but it's probably best to
> use the PADL scripts (http://www.padl.com/OSS/MigrationTools.html) to do
> it.
>
> Clint
>