[Samba] Restoring PDC after Crash, Confused

[jonlists]

Crud. I missed backing up and restoring /var/lib/samba, didn't I? 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM,Microsoft, Novell/Suse, Sophos Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108 
Blog: http://bingo.cbsol.com

samba-bounces+jonlists=cbsol.com at lists.samba.org wrote on 09/24/2004 
11:56:59 AM:

> Samba PDC system drive crashed. running 3.01. 
> 
> rebuilt system drive - kept the hostname the same, restored contents of 
> /etc/samba, plus /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/password
> 
> PDC isn't recognizing machines for SOME machines. Users appear fine. 
> 
> I know that I should have gotten the domain sid previously by doing 
> "getlocalsid" and then restored it by doing "smbpasswd -W SID#" 
> 
> but my understanding was that you no longer had to do the backup and 
> restoration of the SID in version 3.0x. Is that incorrect? What did I 
> miss? Any way out of this other than restoring each machine to the 
domain? 
> 
> 
> Thanks..... 
> 
> Jon Johnston
> Creative Business Solutions
> IBM,Microsoft, Novell/Suse, Sophos Consultants
> http://www.cbsol.com
> 952-544-1108 
> Blog: http://bingo.cbsol.com
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