[Samba] Converting local user account(LDAP) to samba account

[Paul Gienger]

Yunus wrote:

>hi all,
>   I have got a redhat 9 linux machine with all user account maintained in
>ldap.               
>   Now I plan to install a samba pdc with ldap as backend.
>   
>   Can anyone in this list guide me how to migrate all current user account
>   (posixAccount) maintain in ldap to samba account.
>  
>
For getting your posix data in, you should really be asking the LDAP 
lists. 

For getting your samba data from the smbpasswd file to ldap, use the 
pdbedit command: 

pdbedit --import=smbpasswd:/path/to/smbpasswd --export=ldap


>thanks in advance.
>  
>

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