[Samba] Replacing a PDC

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:39:30PM +0100, Paul Furness wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm having a helluva time trying to replace my Samba PDC machine with 
> new hardware, and I'd really appreciate some pointers about how I should 
> be doing it. I'm sorry, I wrote a lot of detail in this email - trying 
> to mention everything that might be relevant.
> 
> Here's the detail:
> 
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> 
> I tried setting up the new server as a BDC, and joining the domain 
> (using 'net join'). I copied and edited the smb.conf file from the 
> working server, then copied over passdb.tdb and smbusers. I then used 
> 'net rpc getsid' to set the sid of the BDC and started smb. The new 
> machine thought that it was working fine as a BDC, but none of the 
> windows machines connected to it. I then stopped the PDC service, and 
> again none of the windows boxes could see any kind of domain controller 
> (even after rebooting them).

Here I mis

   net getlocalsid [NAME]        to get the SID for local name
   net setlocalsid SID   to set the local domain SID

> 
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> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Paul.

HTH
Geert Stappers