[Samba] Moving fileserver

[Turbo Fredriksson]

I'm having a problem here I'm not sure how to solve, so I
hope someone else have done the same (and succeeded :)


I have an old smb server ('tux') which is ancient (both
in software and hardware) and can't handle the load.
This machine is running version 2.2.3a-14.1 (Debian
GNU/Linux woody) with 'character set = ISO8859-1'.

The new smb server ('bella') runs samba version
3.0.10-1 (Debian GNU/Linux sarge) and is fully
UTF-8 enabled...

Now, all files from tux must somehow - this is the
main problem - be moved to bella. I can't mount
the disk from tux in bella for two reasons:

  - bella is using a very limited IDE interface
    which can't find the disk (Dell PowerEdge 1800).
  - Because of the differences in NLS (?), any copy
    from one disk to another will make the file names
    not to show up correctly on the windows clients.

Same problem (last one) with NFS. The only way I could
find is to SMB mount tux on bella and just copy the 
files (with 'find | cpio'). This works fine, exept the
file owner and group doesn't match (root is mounting,
root is owning all files).

I went through with this, hoping I could write a script
that sets owner/group of the files on bella. But this
seemed more difficult than anticipated. Because of the
differences in NLS, the filenames won't match!


Creating a list of filenames on both machines, and diffing
those two files will give me:

-./shares/delade/Bilder/Jobb bilder/Färöarna/Mvc00019.jpg
+./shares/delade/Bilder/Jobb bilder/FAArAA¶arnMvc0001919.jpg

I hope this goes through correctly, but the line which
starts with '-' is located on 'tux' and the line which
starts with '+' is located on 'bella'. The problem
is that the file names don't match betwen the two, so
I can't take a list from tux, and just use that name
for 'chown' on bella...


There are QUITE (haven't counted, but the diff is huge) a
lot of these changes, so catching all characters and do
a translation will take ages.

And, another thing that looks weird is that some file
names don't seem to differ at all(!): 

+./shares/delade/PPV rapporter/020703 Örgryte - Örebro.xls
-./shares/delade/PPV rapporter/020703 Örgryte - Örebro.xls


Anyone that have done something like this before and
have a pointer/script to share?