[Samba] Painless migration from 2.2.x on old server to 3.0.x on newserver needed ASAP

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 13:50, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:45 pm, Chris wrote:
> > The new question is ... how does one convert from smbpasswd to
> > tdbsam?
>
> Just found this in the docs. But can it be done on the fly?

Yes.

In your smb.conf [global] set:

	passdb backend = tdbsam smbpasswd


Then execute:

	pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam

Then edit smb.conf to:

	passdb backend = tdbsam


Then prove that it worked by executing:

	pdbedit -Lw

All accounts should be listed.


- John T.
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John H Terpstra
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