[Samba] Ultimate PDC Upgrade

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 09:36, Kevin Kallsen wrote:
> Samba folks:
> 
>  
> 
> The title maybe indulgent, but I wanted to get everyone's attention.  I
> currently run mandrake 9.0 (FILESERVER) with samba 2.2.8 running as a PDC
> and file server for 20 WinXP workstations.  We bought a new server to
> replace (FILESERVER).  However, I want to install mandrake 9.2 and samba 3.0
> on the new server -then I want the new server also to replace the PDC of the
> old server.  I want to do this without having to reset all the workstations
> to a new PDC.  Is there a way to copy the SID from the old PDC to the new
> PDC so this is seamless transition?

Simply copy all the tdbs/smbpasswd files etc to the new server, and
things should should be fine.

secrets.tdb, smbpasswd are the most important, but just bring the lot
across.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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