[Samba] Samba 2.2 to 3.0.9 DC upgrade problems

Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs.co.za
Wed Jan 12 21:51:43 GMT 2005


On Wednesday 12 January 2005 23:06, John H Terpstra wrote:
> You can recover the SID from the old system by running (for Samba-3):
>
> 	net getlocalsid
>
> You can set the SID on the new server by running:
>
> 	net setlocalsid S-1-5-21-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXX

This I did - in fact, I was quite paranoid about it and checked it over and 
over just to be absolutely sure.

> Note: The SID must be the one you obtained from the old server.
> Additionally, you must ensure that each user has the same UID and GID as
> they were on old server.
I think this must have been the problem.  Do you refer to UID and GID withing 
samba, or the unix UID and GID?

Thanks
-- 
Kind regards
Hans du Plooy
Newington Consulting Services
hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za


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