[Samba] 2.2.7 and getting old SID

Carsten Dumke carsten.dumke at gmx.net
Fri Mar 5 08:53:08 GMT 2004


Hello,

Eric Freed wrote:
> I am trying to migrate from a Samba 2.2.7 PDC to Samba 3, and 
> I need the old domain SID. 2.2.7 doe not have the net tools, 
> so net getlocalsid will not work, the 2.2.7 version of 
> smbpasswd does not have the -X option (which 
> www.richardsharpe.com talked about) and
> tdbdump dumps the SID 
> in HEX, but I don't think I can use that (and I have been 
> unsuccessful in converting to ASCII)...
> 
> Is there any way to get the SID in a usable format?  

I've done this for a samba 2.2.6 server. I used the code
from samba 2.2.8 and compiled it with samba 2.2.6.

Best regards,

Carsten



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