[Samba] The Ultimate Migration

[Tarjei Huse]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 01:10, Gerald Drouillard wrote:
> Kevin Kallsen wrote:
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> > Dear Fellow Samba Users:
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> > I have mandrake 9.1 with Samba 2.2.8 running a domain with 500 users.  It
> > has worked flawlessly for a long time.  However, it is time to set up a new
> > server.  I have a new server with Mandrake 10 OE and Samba 3.0.2 running.
> > Please explain to this newbie and very satisfied samba user how to migrate
> > all my users, groups, sid, domain, etc to the new machine.  My goal is to
> > rsync the correct folders and then power down the old server and have the
> > domain clients recognize the new server.
> > 

> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your detailed reply.
detailed? HA!


No seriously , take a look here:
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/guide/migration.html

nt domain == samba 2.2 

Tarjei

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> The current MDK 10 version of samba 3.x works great except for a major 
> problem with the printing from windows clients.  The problem is that 
> printers will just stop working in samba, and trying to reconnect does 
> not work.  If you simply add another printer in cups with a slightly 
> different name, you will be able to print again... well for how long is 
> another question, until you have to switch back to the original names. 
> My advice is to stick with samba 2.x until we see how well the next RC 
> version of samba works.  The 2.6 kernel rocks!
> 
> Regards
> Gerald Drouillard
> http://convert2samba.com