[Samba] Move Samba to another server

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Aug 23 10:34:33 GMT 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:16 +0200, Kit Gerrits wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> Great, so I can just copy the Data...
> 
> Can you tell me how uer mapping is done?
> Does it map by username or by userID? (planning on some restructuring).

You should really try and keep the same usernames and userids.  It is
possible to change UIDs, and provided you used ldap or tdbsam (I think,
but I've never done it there) you can have arbitrary rids.  Keeping this
constant is the way to ask for less trouble...

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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